McDaniel v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
800 F.2d 1026 · 1986
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Moore v. Barnhart (2005), Davis v. Shalala (1993)
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1382C (§ 1614 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Wiggins v. Schweiker · Brady 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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Is the claimant presently unemployed? (2) Is the claimant's impairment severe? (3) Does the claimant's impairment meet or equal one of the specific impairments set forth in 20 C.F.R. Pt. 404, Subpt. P, App. 1? (4) Is the claimant unable to perform his or her former occupation? [Footnote omitted.] (5) Is the claimant unable to perform any other work within the economy?”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“allows only claims based on the most trivial impairments to be rejected.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“An impairment or combination of impairments is not severe if it does not significantly limit [the claimant's] physical or mental ability to do basic work activities.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.