Chamberlain v. Shalala’s Empirical Analysis
47 F.3d 1489 · 1995
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Dennis W. Pearsall v. Larry Massanari, Acting Commissioner of Social Security (2001), Guilliams v. Barnhart (2005)
17 federal appellate · 9 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
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Polaski v. Heckler · Thomas v. Sullivan · Ward v. Heckler
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Medical reports of a treating physician are ordinarily entitled to greater weight than the opinion of a consulting physician.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] treating physician's opinion is not conclusive in determining disability status and must be supported by medically acceptable clinical or diagnostic data.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[S]uch complaints may be discounted if there are inconsistencies in the evidence as a whole.”
2 later decisions 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.