Cluster 4246559
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· 33 citation events
across 8 courts.
Showing the 23 strongest citers on record
(one row per citing case, strongest signal kept).
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Comer v. Commissioner of Social Security (2022)
Sec., 656 Fed.
“The ALJ contrasted Sorrell’s ability to do daily activities with her reports of pain—noting that Sorrell is ‘able to prepare simple meals, perform various household duties with breaks, handle personal care, drive, and shop’ ”
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Hawk v. Commissioner of Social Security (2021)
Sec., 656 F. App'x 162, 173 (6th Cir. 2016) (“The ALJ contrasted Sorrell’s ability to do daily activities with her reports of pain—noting that Sorrell is “able to prepare simple meals, perform various household duties with breaks, handle personal care, drive, and shop”); Bogle v. Sullivan, 998 F.2d 342, 348 (6th Cir. 1993) (a claimant’s ability to perform household and social activities on a daily basis is contrary to a finding of disability).
“The ALJ contrasted Sorrell’s ability to do daily activities with her reports of pain—noting that Sorrell is “able to prepare simple meals, perform various household duties with breaks, handle personal care, drive, and shop”
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Prichard v. Commissioner of Social Security (2020)
Sec., 656 F. App'x 162, 173 (6th Cir. 2016) (“The ALJ contrasted Sorrell’s ability to do daily activities with her reports of pain—noting that Sorrell is “able to prepare simple meals, perform various household duties with breaks, handle personal care, drive, and shop”); Bogle v. Sullivan, 998 F.2d 342, 348 (6th Cir. 1993) (a claimant’s ability to perform household and social activities on a daily basis is contrary to a finding of disability).
“The ALJ contrasted Sorrell’s ability to do daily activities with her reports of pain—noting that Sorrell is “able to prepare simple meals, perform various household duties with breaks, handle personal care, drive, and shop”
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Hinkston v. Commissioner of Social Security (2020)
Sec., 656 F. App’x 162, 173 (6th Cir. 2016) (“The ALJ contrasted Sorrell’s ability to do daily activities with her reports of pain—noting that Sorrell is “able to prepare simple meals, perform various household duties with breaks, handle personal care, drive, and shop”); Bogle v. Sullivan, 998 F.2d 342, 348 (6th Cir. 1993) (a claimant’s ability to perform household and social activities on a daily basis is contrary to a finding of disability).
“The ALJ contrasted Sorrell’s ability to do daily activities with her reports of pain—noting that Sorrell is “able to prepare simple meals, perform various household duties with breaks, handle personal care, drive, and shop”
Sec., 656 F. App’x 162, 174 (6th Cir. 2016) (applying Cox, but finding “the ALJ provided an adequate explanation of the adverse credibility finding, pointing to, among other things, Sorrell’s inconsistent statements, and her failure to provide medical evidence supporting her claims regarding the intensity and pervasiveness of her pain”); Hernandez v. Comm’r of Soc.
Sec., 656 F. App’x 162, 168 (6th Cir. 2016) (citing Bowen v. Comm’r of Soc.
citing Bowen v. Comm’r of Soc. Sec., 478 F.3d 742, 746 (6th Cir. 2007)
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Cindy S. v. Commissioner of Social Security (2026)
Sec., 656 F. App’x 162, 170 (6th Cir. 2016) (“[T]he ALJ was not required to include a limitation for elevating legs in the RFC because, although there were some treatment records that mentioned leg elevation as a treatment for edema, no physician indicated that Sorrell's edema caused work-related functional limitations, and no medical expert opined Case No. 2:25-cv-293 Page 7 of 8 that Sorrell would need to elevate her feet to waist level during the workday or even every day…
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Cindy S. v. Commissioner of Social Security (2025)
Sec., the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that an ALJ did not err by omitting a leg-elevation limitation in a plaintiff’s RFC. 656 F. App’x 162, 170 (6th Cir. 2016).
Sec., 656 F. App’x 162, 169 (6th Cir. 2016).
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Day v. SSA (2025)
Sec., 656 F. App’x 162, 171 (6th Cir. 2016) (quoting Martin v. Sec’y of Health and Human Servs., 735 F.2d 1008, 1010 (6th Cir. 1984)).
quoting Martin v. Sec’y of Health and Human Servs., 735 F.2d 1008, 1010 (6th Cir. 1984)
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Jones v. Social Security, Commissioner of (2024)
Sec., 656 F. App'x 162, 170 (6th Cir. 2016) (rejecting claimant’s argument that ALJ failed to consider need to elevate legs in calculating residual functional capacity because, despite claimant’s testimony, “no medical expert opined that [the claimant] would need to elevate her feet to waist level during the workday or even every day”); Lyon v. Saul, No. 5:20-CV-00121-LLK, 2021 WL 2403151 , at *2 (W.D.
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Nimocks v. Commissioner of Social Security (2024)
Sec., 656 F. App’x 162, 174 (6th Cir. 2016) (finding use of template language “is not by itself erroneous” where the “ALJ provide[s] an adequate explanation of the adverse credibility finding, pointing to, among other things, [claimant’s] inconsistent statements, and her failure to provide medical evidence supporting her claims regarding the intensity and pervasiveness of her pain”); Barnes v. Comm'r of Soc.
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DeHart v. Commissioner of Social Security (2023)
Sec., 656 Fed.
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Ahmad v. Commissioner of Social Security (2023)
Sec., 656 F. App’x 162, 170 (6th Cir. 2016) (“the ALJ was not required to include a limitation for elevating legs in the RFC because, although there were some treatment records that mentioned leg elevation as a treatment for edema, no physician indicated that Sorrell’s edema caused work- related functional limitations, and no medical expert opined that Sorrell would need to elevate her feet to waist level during the workday or even every day.”).
Sec., 656 F. App’x 162, 170 (6th Cir. 2016).
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Curlett v. Commissioner of Social Security (2021)
Sec., 656 F. App’x 162, 170 (6th Cir. 2016) (“the ALJ was not required to include a limitation for elevating legs in the RFC because, although there were some treatment records that mentioned leg elevation as a treatment for edema, no physician indicated that Sorrell’s edema caused work-related functional limitations, and no medical expert opined that Sorrell would need to elevate her feet to waist level during the workday or even every day.”).
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Lyon v. Commissioner of Social Security (2021)
Sec., 656 F. App'x 162, 170 (6th Cir. 2016).
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Iskra v. Commissioner of Social Security (2021)
Sedentary work would include sitting for approximately 6 hours of an 8- hour workday. , 656 F. App’x 162, 172 (6th Cir. 2016) (citing SSR 96-9p).
citing SSR 96-9p
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Rita Fenwick v. Hartford Life & Accident Ins. (2021)
Sec., 656 F. App’x 162, 172 (6th Cir. 2016).
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Springer v. Berryhill (2020)
Sec., 656 F. App’x 162, 174 (6th Cir. 2016).
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Regina Amburgey v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec. (2018)
Sec., 656 F. App’x 162, 169 (6th Cir. 2016) (quoting 42 U.S.C. § 423 (d)(1)(A)). - 13 - No. 18-5136, Amburgey v. Comm’r of Soc.
quoting 42 U.S.C. § 423 (d)(1)(A)
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Shepard v. Commissioner of Social Security (2017)
Sec., 656 Fed.Appx. 162, 174 (6th Cir. 2016) (citing Cruse v. Comm’r of Soc.
citing Cruse v. Comm’r of Soc. Sec., 502 F.3d 532, 543-44 (6th Cir. 2007) and Young v. Sec’y of Health & Human Servs., 925 F.2d 146 (6th Cir. 1990)
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Comer v. Commissioner of Social Security (2022)
See Sorrell, 656 F. App’x at 174–75 (6th Cir. 2016) (contrasting claimant’s daily activities with reports of physical pain to make a credibility finding about claimant’s limitations).