Boyes v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
901 F.2d 717 · 1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2003
2 federal appellate ·
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. § 301 (§ 1 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Magallanes v. Bowen · Embrey v. Bowen · Murray v. Heckler · Taylor 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the ALJ fails to point to clear and convincing reasons for rejecting the con elusion of the treating physician, or provide specific, legitimate reasons based on evidence for disregarding that conclusion, and when the administrative record is fully developed, benefits should be awarded.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only if the Secretary's findings are based upon legal error or are not supported by substantial evidence in the record as a whole.”
1 later decision 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.