Sryock v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
764 F.2d 834 · 1985
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Phillips v. Barnhart (2004), Walker v. Bowen (1987)
22 federal appellate · 1 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 Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Kirk v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Oldham 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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Exclusive reliance on the grids is not appropriate either when the claimant is unable to perform a full range of work at a given residual functional level or when a claimant has non-exertional impairments that significantly limit basic work skills. This Court has interpreted “significantly limited basic work skills” as limitations that prohibit a claimant from performing “a wide range” of work at a given work level. The ALJ must make a specific finding as to whether the nonexertional limitations are severe enough to preclude a wide range of employment at the given work capacity level indicated by the exertional limitations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is free to reject the opinion of any physician when the evidence supports a contrary conclusion.” Sryock v. Heckler, 764 F.2d 834, 835 (11th Cir.1985). The opinion of a treating physician”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are considered in determining first whether a finding of disabled may be possible based on the strength limitations alone.” 20 C.F.R. pt. 404, subpt. P, app. 2 § 200.00(e)(2). If not, then the grids”
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.