Ray v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
865 F.2d 222 · 1989
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 109 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 176 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Thompson v. Sullivan (1993), Olenhouse v. Commodity Credit Corp. (1994)
40 federal appellate · 109 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. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Heckler v. Campbell · Williams v. Bowen · Frey v. Bowen · Gossett v. Bowen · Huston 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 176 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not only unable to do his previous work but cannot, considering his age, education, and work experience, engage in any other kind of substantial gainful work which exists in the national economy.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Once the claimant has established a disability, the burden shifts to the Secretary to show that the claimant retains the ability to do other work activity and that jobs the claimant could perform exist in the national economy.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he presence of nonexertional impairments precludes reliance on the grids only to the extent that such impairments limit the range of jobs available to the claimant.”
4 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.