Campbell v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
800 F.2d 1247 · 1986
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Bentley v. Shalala (1995), Hunter v. Sullivan (1992)
10 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 2412
Relies on Oppenheim v. Finch · Vitek v. Finch · Mitchell v. Schweiker · Dotson v. Schweiker · Stawls v. Califano
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although our eases do make clear that [the treating physician's] medical opinion was entitled to great weight, they do not hold that it was necessarily of controlling weight. Instead, they clearly contemplate the possibility that such opinions may be rejected in particular cases in deference to conflicting opinions of non-treating physicians. This case is therefore distinguishable on that basis from Anderson [v. Heckler, 756 F.2d 1011 ], (4th Cir.1985) where the Secretary ignored a specifically controlling legal rule. The district court therefore properly concluded here that the Secretary’s position was substantially justified, and although the Secretary did not prevail on the merits, [claimant] was not entitled to attorneys fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The legislative history of the Act makes clear that the burden of demonstrating substantial justification is upon the government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Evans v. Sullivan“concern[ed] the relative weight that must be accorded to conflicting medical opinions”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jenkins v. Chater
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.