Bentley v. Shalala’s Empirical Analysis
52 F.3d 784 · 1995
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Prosch v. Apfel (2000), Goff v. Barnhart (2005)
36 federal appellate · 7 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)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Polaski v. Heckler · Barrett v. Shalala · Walston 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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not automatically control, since the record must be evaluated as a whole.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ALJ's function to resolve conflicts among the various treating and examining physicians”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the medical evidence is equally balanced, as we find it is here, the ALJ resolves the conflict.”
3 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.