Nunn v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
732 F.2d 645 · 1984
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Polaski v. Heckler (1984), Thomas v. Sullivan (1991)
13 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 McCoy v. Schweiker · Landess v. Weinberger · O'Leary v. Schweiker · Rivera v. Schweiker · Tome v. Schweiker
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well established in this circuit that an ALJ may not disregard a claimant’s subjective complaints of pain solely because the objective medical evidence does not fully support them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the ALJ may reject testimony on the basis of credibility, such rejection must be supported by legitimate reasons for disbelief and cannot be a guise for circumventing the rule that objective evidence is not needed to support subjective evidence of pain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackson v. Bowen“ALJ's proffered reasons for disbelieving [appellant's] allegations of pain are unsupported, and, in some instances, contradicted by the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chitwood v. Bowen
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.