McSwain v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
814 F.2d 617 · 1987
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Crawford v. Commissioner of Social Security (2004), Phillips v. Barnhart (2004)
13 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
Relies on MaCgregor v. Bowen · Oldham v. Schweiker · Landry v. Heckler · Chester 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the testimony of a treating physician must be given substantial or considerable weight unless 'good cause' is shown to the contrary,”
1 later decision 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.