Dover v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
784 F.2d 335 · 1986
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently April 2008 · most notably Lovelace v. Bowen (1987), 16455a Baker v. Secretary of Health and Human Services (1992)
16 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 Tome v. Schweiker · Lanning v. Heckler · Mellon v. Heckler · Day 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on remand, assuming the evidence as developed does not conclusively establish that appellant is disabled, we believe that vocational expert testimony is needed to satisfy the Secretary's burden [when the ALJ concludes that a claimant cannot return to previous work] of demonstrating the availability of jobs in the national economy that appellant could perform”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he ALJ must consider a claimant's allegation that he has not sought medical treatment or used medications because of a lack of finances.”
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.