Bridges v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
815 F.2d 622 · 1987
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Walker v. Bowen (1987), Lamb v. Bowen (1988)
5 federal appellate ·
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 Wiggins v. Schweiker · Brady v. Heckler · McDaniel v. Bowen · Farris v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Johnson 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Despite this limited review, [the court] ... must scrutinize the record in its entirety to determine the reasonableness of the Secretary’s factual findings ... No similar presumption of validity attaches to the Secretary’s legal conclusions, including determination of the proper standards to be applied in evaluating claims.”
4 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.