Higgs v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
880 F.2d 860 · 1988
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Flaten v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1995), Rogers v. Commissioner of Social Security (2007)
38 federal appellate · 1 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. § 401 (§ 201 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Bowen v. Yuckert · Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States · Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Martin Exploration Management Co. · Salmi v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · John VARLEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant-Appellee
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“considered the entire record which was before the ALJ, including the testimony at the hearing.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an impairment can be considered not severe only if it is a slight abnormality that minimally affects work ability regardless of age, education, and experience.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an administrative convenience to screen out claims that are 'totally groundless' solely from a medical standpoint.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.