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Nelson v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis

882 F.2d 45 · 1989

Citation profile

36
cited by 36 later decisions
August 2014
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 1 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Balsamo v. Chater (1998), 14373b Jesurum v. Secretary of United States Department of Health & Human Services (1995)

3 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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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 Berry v. Schweiker · Carroll v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Dumas v. Schweiker · Rivera v. Schweiker

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.

  1. “[T]he Secretary cannot sustain [her] burden without a showing that the claimant engages in activity for sustained periods of time comparable to those required to maintain a sedentary job, ... especially in light of the Secretary’s own ruling explaining that sedentary work requires “that a worker be in a certain place or posture for at least a certain length of time to accomplish a certain task. Unskilled types of jobs are particularly structured so that a person cannot ordinarily sit or stand at will-””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “it would be a shame to hold this endurance against him in determining benefits unless his conduct truly showed that he is capable of working.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[w]hen a disabled person gamely chooses to endure pain in order to pursue important goals,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.