Bland v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
861 F.2d 533 · 1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Thomas v. Sullivan (1991), Culbertson v. Shalala (1994)
4 federal appellate · 2 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 Tucker v. Heckler · Piercy v. Bowen · Metcalf v. Heckler · Ciccone v. Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services of United States
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he concept of substantial evidence is something less than the weight of the evidence and it allows for the possibility of drawing two inconsistent conclusions, thus it embodies a zone of choice within which the Secretary may decide to grant or deny benefits without being subject to reversal on appeal.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Monier v. Apfel · Polette v. Chater“Once a claimant has established an impairment that prevents him from returning to his previous work, the burden shifts to the Secretary to show that the claimant can perform other work in the national economy.”
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.