Osborne v. Cohen’s Empirical Analysis
409 F.2d 37 · 1969
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 1988 · most notably Adams v. Weinberger (1977), Cooper v. Bowen (1987)
16 federal appellate · 5 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Powell v. Texas · May v. Gardner · Walters v. Gardner · Nelson v. Gardner
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He was unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of a medically determinable physical or mental impairment which could be expected to result in death or be of long continued and indefinite duration or which had lasted, or could be expected to last, for a continuous period of at least twelve months.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a doctor testified that the affliction was not so deep-seated as to be irremediable, that the claimant was not psychotic, and that the only bar to recovery was claimant's lack of motivation and cooperation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.