Wren v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
925 F.2d 123 · 1991
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Anthony v. Sullivan (1992), Martinez v. Chater (1995)
11 federal appellate · 1 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 Bowen v. Yuckert · DePaepe v. Richardson · Fraga v. Bowen · Jones v. Heckler · Lovelace v. Bowen
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. An individual who is working and engaging in substantial gainful activity will not be found disabled regardless of medical findings. 2. An individual who does not have a “severe impairment” will not be found to be disabled. 3. An individual who “meets or equals a listed impairment in Appendix 1” of the regulations will be considered disabled without consideration of vocational factors. 4. If an individual is capable of performing the work he has done in the past, a finding of “not disabled” must be made. 5. If an individual’s impairment precludes him from performing his past work, other factors including age, education, past work experience, and residual functional capacity must be considered to determine if work can be performed.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment... which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carson v. Berryhill“The ALJ must consider subjective evidence of pain, but it is within his discretion to determine the pain's disabling nature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dunbar v. Barnhart
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.