Micus v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
979 F.2d 602 · 1992
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Diaz v. Chater (1995), Luna v. Shalala (1994)
14 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
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Bethlehem Steel Corp. v. Pemberton · Walker v. Bowen · Stephens v. Heckler · Ehrhart v. Secretary of Health & Human Services
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“). Indeed, although a treating physician may have the ability to observe a claimant over a longer period of time than a consulting physician, a claimant's regular physician may also desire to do a favor for a friend and client and”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is up to the ALJ to decide which doctor to believe--the treating physician who has experience and knowledge of the case, but may be biased, or . . . the consulting physician, who may bring expertise and knowledge of similar cases--subject only to the requirement that the ALJ's decision be supported by substantial evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he ability to consider bias ... is not synonymous with the ability to blithely reject a treating physician's opinion or to discount that physician's opportunity to have observed the claimant over a long period of time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edwards 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.