Polaski v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
739 F.2d 1320 · 1984
Citation profile
341 federal appellate · 50 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 908 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Bunnell v. Sullivan (1991), 14 soc.sec.rep.ser. 301, unempl.ins.rep. Cch 16,883 Ernest S. Avery v. Secretary of Health and Human Services (1986)
341 federal appellate · 50 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
Relies on 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 908 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The adjudicator must give full consideration to all of the evidence presented relating to subjective complaints, including the claimant’s prior work record, and observations by third parties and treating and examining physicians relating to such matters as: 1) the claimant’s daily activities; 2) the duration, frequency and intensity of the pain; 3) precipitating and aggravating factors; 4) dosage, effectiveness and side effects of medication; 5) functional restrictions.”
106 later decisions quote this exact passage“evaluating [a claimant's] pain and other subjective complaints”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Depover v. Barnhart
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.