Luna v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
834 F.2d 161 · 1987
Citation profile
121 federal appellate · 129 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 362 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Williams v. Bowen (1988), Casias v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1991)
121 federal appellate · 129 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. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Bowen v. Yuckert · Duncan v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · 14 soc.sec.rep.ser. 301, unempl.ins.rep. Cch 16,883 Ernest S. Avery v. Secretary of Health and Human Services · Polaski 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 362 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if an impairment is reasonably expected to produce some pain, allegations of disabling pain emanating from that impairment are sufficiently consistent to require consideration of all relevant evidence.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he impairment or abnormality must be one which 'could reasonably be expected to produce' the alleged pain.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the possibility that psychological disorders combine with physical problems”
18 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.