Baker v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
886 F.2d 289 · 1989
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Perez v. Chater (1996), Thompson v. Sullivan (1993)
23 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Williams v. Bowen · Ray v. Bowen · Reyes v. Bowen · Donato v. Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services of United States · Hudson 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consider all relevant medical evidence of record in reaching a conclusion as to disability,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he ALJ ... has the affirmative duty to fully and fairly develop the record regardless of whether the applicant is represented by an attorney or a paralegal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“speculation. “There are specific rules of law that must be followed in weighing particular types of evidence in disability cases,” and the failure to follow these rules is reversible error.... Where the record on appeal is unclear as to whether the ALJ applied the appropriate standard by considering all the evidence before him, the proper remedy is reversal and remand....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.