Bernal v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
851 F.2d 297 · 1988
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 59 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 162 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Plummer v. Apfel (1999), 16558a Hamilton v. Secretary of Health & Human Services of United States (1992)
48 federal appellate · 59 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) · 42 U.S.C. § 421 (§ 221 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Bowen v. City of New York · Frey v. Bowen · Huston v. Bowen · Reyes v. Bowen
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 162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To find that the Secretary's decision is supported by substantial evidence, there must be sufficient relevant evidence in the record that a reasonable person might deem adequate to support the ultimate conclusion.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A decision is not based on substantial evidence if it is overwhelmed by other evidence in the record or if there is a mere scintilla of evidence supporting it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“every reasonable effort to ensure that a qualified psychiatrist or psychologist”
2 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.