Ludden v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
888 F.2d 1246 · 1989
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Reed v. Sullivan (1993), Kirby v. Sullivan (1991)
7 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
Relies on Arkansas Public Service Commission v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. · Polaski v. Heckler · Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. Crenshaw · Brown v. Schweitzer · Polaski 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[a]n applicant need not be completely bedridden or unable to perform any household chores to be considered disabled.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“individuals at hearings are more likely to present themselves, or their loved ones, in the light most favorable to benefit awarding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Neely v. Shalala“may not discredit allegations of pain merely because of a lack of objective evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bishop v. Sullivan
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.