Johnson v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
866 F.2d 274 · 1989
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Smith v. Shalala (1993), Shannon v. Chater (1995)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
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 Benskin v. Bowen · Dover v. Bowen · Brown v. Heckler
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the medical records do not reveal that appellant complained of disabling seizures and headaches or requested treatment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tate v. Apfel
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.