Cooper v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
815 F.2d 557 · 1987
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Sullivan v. Hudson (1989), Magallanes v. Bowen (1989)
27 federal appellate · 9 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)
Relies on Darring v. Kincheloe · Smith v. Califano · Ferguson v. Schweiker · Purter v. Heckler · United States v. Hayes
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“make a specific finding on the claimant's ability to control his or her drinking and its disabling effect.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Given the nature of alcoholism, awarding benefits may not help the claimant if he or she spends the money on alcohol, exacerbating the disabling condition.... We now endorse [the approach adopted by several other circuits], and require the Secretary to consider on remand [conditioning benefits on receipt of treatment].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[b]efore a finding of disability due to alcoholism can be made, it must first be shown that the claimant is addicted to alcohol and does not have the ability to control its use voluntarily.'”
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.