Nelson v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
855 F.2d 503 · 1988
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Eads v. Secretary Department Health Human Services (1993), Thomas v. Sullivan (1991)
10 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. § 301 (§ 1 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Bauzo v. Bowen · Booz v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Godsey 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The following steps are addressed in order: (1) Is the claimant presently unemployed? (2) Is the claimant’s impairment “severe”? (3) Does the impairment meet or exceed one of a list of specific impairments? (4) Is the claimant unable to perform his or her former occupation? (5) Is the claimant unable to perform any other work within the economy? An affirmative answer leads either to the next step or, on steps 3 and 5, to a finding that the claimant is disabled. A negative answer at any point, other than step 3, stops the inquiry and leads to a determination that the claimant is not disabled.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Given the paucity of the evidence before the ALJ relevant to this issue and the lack of evidence clearly contradicting the additional evidence offered by [Hughes] before the Appeals Council, that evidence, if considered by the ALJ, might reasonably have affected his determination....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Appeals Council’s determination that the additional evidence submitted by [a claimant] is not material is a legal determination and therefore subject to de novo review. 13”
1 later decision 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.