Fowler v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
866 F.2d 249 · 1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Ness v. Sullivan (1990), Tanya Buckner v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner, Social Security Administration (2000)
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 Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Gavin v. Heckler · Parsons v. Heckler · Piercy v. Bowen · Douglas 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether the Secretary's decision is supported by substantial evidence on the record as a whole, the court must take into consideration the weight of the evidence in the record both for and against the conclusion reached.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ness v. Sullivan“When the record is overwhelmingly in support of a finding of disability, there is no need to remand to the Secretary for further consideration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brooks v. Berryhill
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.