Walker v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
834 F.2d 635 · 1987
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 248 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Seavey v. Barnhart (2001), Craig v. Chater (1996)
55 federal appellate · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 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 Heckler v. Campbell · Stephens v. Heckler · Delgado v. Bowen · Allen v. Weinberger
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 248 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where conflicting evidence allows reasonable minds to differ as to whether a claimant is disabled, the responsibility for that decision falls on the Secretary (or the Secretary's designate, the ALJ).”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the findings of the Secretary as to any fact, if supported by substantial evidence, shall be conclusive.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The grid is a chart which classifies a claimant as disabled or not disabled, based on the claimant's physical capacity, age, education, and work experience.”
5 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.