Waters v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 2019
6 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 Bowen v. Yuckert · Rodriguez v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Goodermote v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · 14 soc.sec.rep.ser. 301, unempl.ins.rep. Cch 16,883 Ernest S. Avery v. Secretary of Health and Human Services · Smith 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here is a 'difference between a person's being able to engage in sporadic physical activities and her being able to work eight hours a day five consecutive days of the week.' " (quoting Carradine v. Barnhart , 360 F.3d 751 , 755 (7th Cir. 2004) ) ); Waters v. Bowen , 709 F.Supp. 278 , 284 (D. Mass. 1989) ("[S]uch [sporadic and transitory] tasks can be performed intermittently, when the individual is not experiencing severe pain or before the pain caused by such activity becomes overwhelming. Thus, such tasks do not require the sustained effort necessary for any substantial, sustained, and regular gainful employment.”
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.