Chester v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
792 F.2d 129 · 1986
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Lewis v. Callahan (1997), Moore v. Barnhart (2005)
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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 Walden v. Schweiker · Ferguson v. Schweiker · Boyd v. Heckler · Landry 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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether substantial evidence exists, we must view the record as a whole, taking into account evidence favorable as well as unfavorable to the Secretary's decision.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hile [a claimant's] pain may not be disabling in and of itself, it may be disabling when considered along with [claimant's] other impairments ... Thus, the issue of pain is still relevant in determining whether [a claimant] maintains the residual functional capacity to work.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there must be medical signs and Endings, established by medically acceptable clinical or laboratory diagnostic techniques, which show the existence of a medical impairment that results from anatomical, physiological, or psychological abnormalities which could reasonably be expected to produce the pain or other symptoms alleged and which, when considered with all evidence required to be furnished under this paragraph (including statements of the individual or his physician as to the intensity and persistence of such pain or other symptoms which may reasonably be accepted as consistent with the medical signs and findings), would lead to a conclusion that the individual is under a disability. Objective medical evidence of pain or other symptoms established by medically acceptable clinical or laboratory techniques (for example, deteriorating nerve or muscle tissue) must be considered in reaching a conclusion as to whether the individual is under a disability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Holladay 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.