Davis v. Shalala’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 3 district ·

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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “This court . . . [may] remand the case for an entry of an order awarding disability benefits where the Secretary has already considered the essential evidence and it is clear that the cumulative effect of the evidence establishes disability without any doubt.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. BRIGHT-JACOBS v. Barnhart · Sacilowski v. Saul

2. “[A] claim for social security benefits based on disability may lie even though none of the impairments, considered individually, is disabling. In such instances, it is the duty of the administrative law judge to make specific and well-articulated findings as to the effect of the combination of impairments and to decide whether the combined impairments cause the claimant to be disabled.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 186 F. Supp. 2d 1192 - Williams v. Barnhart · 494 F. Supp. 2d 1284 - Jones v. Astrue

3. “consider the combined effect of all . . . impairments without regard to whether any such impairment, if considered separately, would be of sufficient severity”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sacilowski v. Saul · 248 F. Supp. 2d 607 - Robinson v. Barnhart