Patterson v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
799 F.2d 1455 · 1986
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Foote v. Chater (1995), Walker v. Bowen (1987)
14 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
Relies on Reeves v. Heckler · Teter v. Heckler · Sryock v. Heckler · Broz v. Schweiker · Francis 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Patterson court concluded that evidence of physical or mental impairments is relevant to the question of a claimant's ability to adapt to a new work environment and must be used to help establish that a person's ability to adapt is less than the level established under the medical-vocational guidelines for claimants of that age.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Daniels v. Apfel“[i]f the Secretary's position on appeal (that evidence of physical and mental impairments is irrelevant to the ability to adapt issue) were accepted, it is difficult to understand how a claimant could establish that his ability to adapt to a new job is less than that presumed under the grids for a person his age.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Daniels v. Apfel“In order to deny benefits under § 404.1530, the ALJ must find that if the claimant followed the prescribed treatment, his ability to work would be restored, and this finding must be supported by substantial evidence.”
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.