Benson v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
652 F.2d 406 · 1981
Citation profile
19 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Bloodsworth v. Heckler (1983), Cowart v. Schweiker (1981)
19 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
Relies on DePaepe v. Richardson · Simmons v. Harris · Cross v. Finch · Goodman v. Richardson · Weslie W. Herridge v. Elliot L. Richardson, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court has held that subjective evidence of pain, as testified to by the claimant, when linked to a 'medically determinable impairment' may be sufficient to support a finding by the secretary of the inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity, although testimony about the claimant's pain is based on the purely subjective experience of the patient and the existence of pain itself is unsupported by objective medical evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it was clear error for the [ALJ] to disregard completely the subjective evidence developed at the hearing.”
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.