Frey v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
816 F.2d 508 · 1987
Citation profile
100 federal appellate · 110 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 301 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Williams v. Bowen (1988), Luna v. Bowen (1987)
100 federal appellate · 110 district · 1 state decisions
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. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Podedworny v. Harris · Kent v. Schweiker · MaCgregor 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 301 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if it is brief, conclusory, and unsupported by medical evidence.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“findings of a nontreating physician based upon limited contact and examination are of suspect reliability.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[i]f the opinion of the claimant's physician is to be disregarded, specific, legitimate reasons for this action must be set forth.'”
6 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.