Fisk v. Barnhart’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Wilson v. Commissioner of Social Security · Key v. Callahan · Jerome MAZIARZ, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant-Appellee · Valley v. Commissioner of Social Security · Nelson v. Commissioner of Social Security
Most-quoted passages
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“so patently deficient that the Commissioner could not credit it” and the Com missioner did not meet the goal of this procedural requirement. There is a second exception to the rule that harmless-error analysis does not apply when the Commissioner fails to supply good reasons for declining to give controlling weight to the treating physician's opinion. Such”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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