Brown v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
801 F.2d 361 · 1986
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 23 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Williams v. Bowen (1988), Hargis v. Sullivan (1991)
39 federal appellate · 23 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 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Heckler v. Campbell · Podedworny v. Harris · Dumas v. Schweiker · Taylor 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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'so severe, by itself or in conjunction with other impairments, as to preclude any substantial gainful employment.'”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Substantial evidence is more than a scintilla; it is such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might deem adequate to support a conclusion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'a claimant's subjective complaint of pain is by itself insufficient to establish disability.'”
3 later decisions 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.