Ceballos v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2017
3 federal appellate ·
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. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Bowen v. City of New York · Heckler v. Campbell · Polaski 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because even a conclusory report by a treating physician presumably rests upon encapsulated experience with the subject, the ALJ may not reject or discount his or her summary report without first informing the claimant of this proposed action and providing the claimant an opportunity to submit a more detailed statement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the AU [from] substituting] his or her own inferential judgment for that of a competent medical opinion, particularly where the AU’s judgment assumes some degree of medical expertise and would amount to rendering an expert opinion which is based on competence which he or she does not possess.”
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.