Schisler v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
851 F.2d 43 · 1988
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Schaal v. Apfel (1998), Rivera v. Sullivan (1991)
18 federal appellate · 7 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
Relies on Mongeur v. Heckler · Schisler v. Heckler · Leon v. Secretary of Health and Human Services · Havas 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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) binding on the fact-finder unless contradicted by substantial evidence and (2) entitled to some extra weight, even if contradicted by substantial evidence, because the treating source is inherently more familiar with a claimant's medical condition than are other sources.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A claimant’s treating source is his or her own physician, osteopath or psychologist ... who has provided the individual with medical treatment or evaluation and who has or had an ongoing treatment and physician-patient relationship with the individual. The nature of the physician’s relationship with the patient, rather than its duration or its coincidence with a claim for benefits, is determinative.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[r]esolution of genuine conflicts between the opinion of the treating source, with its extra weight, and any substantial evidence to the contrary remains the responsibility of the fact-finder.”
3 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.