Bell v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
796 F.2d 1350 · 1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2017
3 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Smith v. Schweiker · Broughton 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We hold when a claimant contends that he has an impairment meaning the listed impairments entitling him to an adjudication of disability under Regulation 404.1520(d), he must present specific medical findings that meet the various tests listed under the description of the applicable impairment or, if in the alternative he contends that he has an impairment which, is equal to one of the listed impairments, the claimant must present medical evidence which describes how the impairment has such an equivalency-”
1 later decision 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.