McRoberts v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
841 F.2d 1077 · 1988
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Wilson v. Barnhart (2002), Martin v. Sullivan (1990)
7 federal appellate ·
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 Richardson v. Perales · Heckler v. Campbell · Bloodsworth v. Heckler · Cowart v. Schweiker · Walden v. Schweiker
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is such relevant evidence as a reasonable person would accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin v. Sullivan“must do more than create a suspicion of the existence of the fact to be established.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Barnhart
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.