Frankenfield v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
861 F.2d 405 · 1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 13 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Morales v. Apfel (2000), Sharon Bingham Matthews v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of Social Security (2001)
1 federal appellate · 13 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 Kent v. Schweiker · Rossi v. Califano · Szubak v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Benton 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“observation of the claimant at the hearing.”
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.