Bowman v. Astrue’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 18 district ·

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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In the first phase, the ALJ must evaluate a claimant’s physical and mental residual functional capacity (RFC), ... and in the second phase, he must determine the physical and mental demands of the claimant’s past relevant work.... In the final phase, the ALJ determines whether the claimant has the ability to meet the job demands found in phase two despite the mental and/or physical limitations found in phase one.... At each of these phases, the ALJ must make specific findings.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Best-Willie v. Astrue · Borgsmiller v. Astrue

2. ““[A]n opinion from a medical source who is not an ‘acceptable medical source’ may outweigh the opinion of an ‘acceptable medical' source’ ... if he or she has seen the individual more often than [an ‘acceptable medical source’] and has provided better supporting evidence and a better explanation for his or her opinion.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kellams v. Berryhill

3. “neither reweigh[s] the evidence nor substitute[s] [its] judgment for that of the agency.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rush v. Saul