Hand v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
793 F.2d 275 · 1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2009
4 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 Parker v. Bowen · Hand v. Heckler · Parker 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Appeals Council's explanation for this finding was that the clinical and laboratory findings did not establish the existence of an impairment that could reasonably be expected to produce pain of the severity alleged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blankenship v. Bowen“it consisted merely of a conclusory opinion that was not supported by clinical or laboratory findings and because it was in conflict with the opinion of Hand's treating physicians and the consulting neurologist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blankenship 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.