Gatson v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
838 F.2d 442 · 1988
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 13 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Thompson v. Sullivan (1993), Harris v. Garner (2000)
22 federal appellate · 13 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. § 406 (§ 206 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 · Luna v. Bowen · Frey v. Bowen · Huston v. Bowen · Channel 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By statute, objective medical evidence must establish an impairment that reasonably could be expected to produce the alleged pain, and statements regarding the intensity and persistence of the pain must be consistent with medical findings and signs.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Subjective pain must be evaluated with due consideration for credibility, motivation, and medical evidence ... Yet a medical finding of disability is not based solely on objective test results. It includes an evaluation of the patient’s medical history and the physician’s observations of the patient, and necessarily involves an evaluation of the credibility of the patient’s subjective complaints of pain. A medical opinion based on all of these factors is medical evidence supporting a claim of disabling pain, even if the objective test results, taken alone, do not fully substantiate the claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sumpter v. Bowen“the claimant does not bear the burden to prove that h[is] ... right hand weakness substantially diminish[es] h[is] capacity for a full range of light work on a sustained basis; instead, the Secretary shoulders the burden of showing that the ... weakness do[es] not substantially diminish it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wadford v. Chater
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.