Foster v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
853 F.2d 483 · 1988
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Blankenship v. Bowen (1989), Higgs v. Bowen (1988)
27 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Columbian Enameling & Stamping Co. · Kirk v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Garner 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Substantial evidence is evidence that a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is more than a mere scintilla, but only that much evidence required to prevent a directed verdict.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Secretary's findings 'are not to be overturned unless there is no substantial evidence supporting such conclusions.'”
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.