James v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
793 F.2d 702 · 1986
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Johnson v. Bowen (1988), Fraga v. Bowen (1987)
16 federal appellate · 1 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. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Mabry v. Johnson · Connolly v. United States · Jones v. Heckler · Kane v. Heckler · Dellolio 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ALJ's findings regarding the debilitating effect of the subjective complaints are entitled to considerable judicial deference.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Haywood v. Sullivan
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.