Lichter v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
814 F.2d 430 · 1987
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Briscoe ex rel. Taylor v. Barnhart (2005), Scheck v. Barnhart (2004)
18 federal appellate · 6 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. § 421 (§ 221 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Heckler v. Edwards · Johnson v. Heckler · Swanson v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Cook v. Heckler · Conley v. Bowen
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'should be used if it is consistent with all the evidence available.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he critical date is the date of onset of disability, not the date of diagnosis.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“can never be inconsistent with the medical evidence of record.”
2 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.