Cole v. Secretary of Health & Human Services’s Empirical Analysis
820 F.2d 768 · 1987
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2014 · most notably Sullivan v. Hudson (1989), Walters v. Commissioner of Social Security (1997)
43 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
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 Richardson v. Perales · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Kirk v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · McCoy v. Schweiker · Garner 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The claim of nonexertional impairment must indicate a significant or severe limitation precluding the ability (in this case) to do sedentary work.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“claimant has the vocational qualifications to perform specific jobs ... which exist in the national economy.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A mere allegation of a non-exertional limitation is not sufficient ... the determining factor is whether the alleged non-exertional impairment is severe enough to alter the conclusion that the claimant could do a full range of sedentary work.”
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.