Ray v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
813 F.2d 914 · 1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2001
4 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
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 · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Gallant v. Heckler · Hall v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Jones 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“anatomical, physiological or psychological abnormalities that are demonstrable by medically acceptable clinical and laboratory techniques.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“retain[ed] the residual functional capacity to perform his past relevant work.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hintz v. Shalala
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.