Bradley v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
800 F.2d 760 · 1986
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably Ellis v. Barnhart (2005), Ekeland v. Bowen (1990)
9 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
Relies on McCoy v. Schweiker · Parsons v. Heckler · Tucker v. Heckler · Conley v. Bowen · Stephens v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“repeatedly held that vocational testimony elicited by hypothetical questions that fail to relate with precision the physical and mental impairments of the claimant cannot constitute substantial evidence to support the Secretary's decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We are convinced that Bradley proved that he cannot return to any past relevant work. Ordinarily, the burden would then shift to the Secretary, and he would be given a chance to prove that there are other jobs that Bradley can perform. However, there has already been one remand and we are not confident that a second remand will produce a correct decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ozbun v. Callahan
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.