866 F. Supp. 2d 951 - Wurst v. Astrue’s Empirical Analysis
2012
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Sims v. Apfel · United States v. Dunkel · Ehrhart v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Craft v. Astrue
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“The administrative law judge’s opinion states that “after considering the evidence of record, the undersigned finds that the claimant’s medically determinable impairments would reasonably be expected to produce the alleged symptoms, but that the claimant’s statements concerning the intensity, persistence and limiting effects of these symptoms are not entirely credible.” This is a piece of boilerplate that appears in virtually identical language in both these cases as well as in a third social security disability case argued to us the same day. It is not only boilerplate; it is meaningless boilerplate. The statement by a trier of fact that a witness’s testimony is “not entirely credible” yields no clue to what weight the trier of fact gave the testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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