Nyman v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
779 F.2d 528 · 1985
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Bunnell v. Sullivan (1991), 16155b Dar Morgan v. Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (1999)
29 federal appellate · 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. § 1382C (§ 1614 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a claimant's self-serving statements may be disregarded to the extent that they are unsupported by objective findings”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]ection 423(d)(5)(A) states that an individual's statement as to pain ... shall not alone be conclusive evidence of disability.... Objective medical evidence of pain ... must be considered in reaching a conclusion as to whether the individual is under a disability.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected ... to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months.”
2 later decisions 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.