14 canonical passages across 11 cases, quoted by 379 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Matta v. Astrue.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matta v. Astrue Anchor | green | “although the alj's conclusion may not perfectly correspond with any of the opinions of medical sources cited in his decision, he was entitled to weigh all of the evidence available to make an rfc finding that was consistent with the record as a whole.” | 110 |
| 2 | Talavera v. Commr of Social Security | green | “the applicant bears the burden of proof in the first four steps of the sequential inquiry . . . .” | 77 |
| 3 | Monroe v. Commissioner of Social Security | green | “genuine conflicts in the medical evidence are for the commissioner to resolve.” | 40 |
| 4 | McIntyre v. Colvin | green | “if evidence is susceptible to 3 this court assumes familiarity with the underlying facts, the procedural history, and the decision of the administrative law judge ("alj” | 31 |
| 5 | Pellam v. Astrue | green | “we think that pellam is, in reality, attempting to characterize her claim that the alj's determination was not supported by substantial evidence as a legal argument in order to garner a more favorable standard of review.” | 28 |
| 6 | Zabala v. Astrue | green | “none of the clinicians who examined indicated that she had anything more than moderate limitations in her work-related functioning, and most reported less severe limitations.” | 23 |
| 7 | Tolbert v. Queens College | green | “it is a settled appellate rule that issues adverted to in a perfunctory manner, unaccompanied by some effort at developed argumentation, are deemed waived.” | 22 |
| 8 | Brault v. Social Security Administration | green | “once the alj finds facts, can reject those facts only if a reasonable factfinder would have to conclude otherwise” | 9 |
| 9 | House v. Astrue | green | “a treating physician's opinion that a claimant is disabled or cannot be gainfully employed gets no deference because it invades the province of the commissioner to make the ultimate disability determination.” | 9 |
| 10 | Tatelman v. Colvin | green | “it is well-settled that a limitation to unskilled work ... sufficiently accounts for limitations relating to stress and production pace” | 8 |
| 11 | McIntyre v. Colvin | green | “if the evidence is susceptible to more than one rational interpretation, the commissioner's conclusion must be upheld.” | 8 |
| 12 | Brault v. Social Security Administration | green | “an alj's failure to cite specific evidence does not indicate that such evidence was not considered.” | 6 |
| 13 | Darline Halloran v. Jo Anne Barnhart, as Commissioner of the Social Security Administration | green | “he standardized form . . . is only marginally useful for purposes of creating a meaningful and reviewable factual record” | 5 |
| 14 | Tolbert v. Queens College | green | “ssues adverted to in a perfunctory manner, unaccompanied by some effort at developed argumentation, are deemed waived.” | 3 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.