Hudson v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
849 F.2d 433 · 1988
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2005
13 federal appellate · 2 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. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Cotton v. Bowen · Taylor v. Heckler · Miller v. Heckler · Lewin v. Schwieker · Nyman 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there must be an explicit finding as to whether the claimant's testimony was believed or disbelieved and the testimony must not be entirely discounted simply because there was a lack of objective findings.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be free to disregard self-serving statements that cannot be verified, and the ALJ's assessment of credibility must be given great weight.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'more than a scintilla' and is such that a reasonable mind may accept it as adequate to support a conclusion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Travers v. Shalala
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.