Broadbent v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
698 F.2d 407 · 1983
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 61 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 180 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Williams v. Bowen (1988), Casias v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1991)
71 federal appellate · 61 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. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Allen v. Califano · Dvorak v. Celebrezze · Cagle v. Califano
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 180 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.'”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]ubstantiality of evidence must be based upon the record taken as a whole,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n individual ... shall be determined to be under a disability only if his physical or mental impairment or impairments are of such severity that he is not only unable to do his previous work but cannot, considering his age, education, and work experience, engage in any other kind of substantial gainful work which exists in the national economy, regardless of whether such work exists in the immediate area in which he lives, or whether a specific job vacancy exists for him, or whether he would be hired if he applied for work____”
4 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.