Maresh v. Barnhart’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate ·

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1. “Listing 12.05 [mental impairments] contains an introductory paragraph with the diagnostic description for mental retardation. It also contains four sets of criteria (paragraphs A through D). If your impairment satisfies the diagnostic description in the introductory paragraph and any one of the four sets of criteria, we will find that your impairment meets the listing.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mendez v. Barnhart

2. “Mental retardation refers to significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning with deficits in adaptive functioning initially manifested during the developmental period; i.e., the evidence demonstrates or supports onset of the impairment before age 22. The required level of severity for this disorder is met when the requirements in A, B, C, or D are satisfied.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mendez v. Barnhart

3. “physical or other mental impairment imposing an additional and significant work-related limitation of function,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mendez v. Barnhart