Hall v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
837 F.2d 272 · 1988
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 170 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Trimiar v. Sullivan (1992), Barker v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1989)
63 federal appellate · 3 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. § 301 (§ 1 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 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 Kirk v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Duncan v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Allen v. Califano · King 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 170 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he decision [of whether work exists in significant numbers] should ultimately be left to the trial judge's common sense in weighing the statutory language as applied to a particular claimant's factual situation.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“when good reasons are identified for not accepting them.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is immaterial that [the number of relevant jobs] is a small percentage of the total number of jobs in a given area.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.