Dollar v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
821 F.2d 530 · 1987
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 21 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Williams v. Bowen (1988), Casias v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1991)
35 federal appellate · 21 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 Frey v. Bowen · Broadbent v. Harris · Channel v. Heckler · Talbot v. Heckler · Dixon 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[O]utright reversal and remand for immediate award of benefits is appropriate when additional fact finding would serve no useful purpose.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has the duty to meticulously examine the record and ... determin[e] on the record as a whole,”
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.