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776 F.2d 960 · 1985

Citation profile

78
cited by 78 later decisions
1
states following
June 2022
most recently cited

19 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Lewis v. Callahan (1997), MaCgregor v. Bowen (1986)

19 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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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 Bonner v. City of Prichard · Stein v. Reynolds Securities, Inc. · Wiggins v. Schweiker · Smith v. Schweiker · 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[Secretary] must accord 'substantial' or 'considerable' weight to the opinion of a claimant's treating physician unless 'good cause' is shown to the contrary.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 73 F. Supp. 2d 1325 - Williams v. Apfel · Parker v. Bowen
  2. “'the opinion of a non-examining physician is entitled to little weight if it is contrary to the opinion of the claimant's treating physician.'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Beverly Brewer v. Secretary of Health and Human Services · Leslie A. Tuohy v. Secretary of Health and Human Services
  3. “It is not only legally relevant but unquestionably logical that the opinions, diagnosis, and medical evidence of a treating physician whose familiarity with the patient's injuries, course of treatment, and responses over a considerable length of time, should be given considerable weight.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Bell 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.