7 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 316 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 Elizabeth Deloatche v. Margaret M. Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services of the United States.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elizabeth Deloatche v. Margaret M. Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services of the United States Anchor | green | “judicial review of an administrative decision is impossible without an adequate explanation of that decision by the .” | 250 |
| 2 | Jackie L. HAYS, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis W. SULLIVAN, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee | green | “ultimately, it is the duty of the administrative law judge reviewing a case, and not the responsibility of the courts, to make findings of fact and to resolve conflicts in the evidence.” | 14 |
| 3 | Onishea v. Barnhart | green | “the alj based his assessment of rfc, in part, on the state examiner's function-by-function analysis thus, the alj employed the legal standard set forth in . . . ssr 96-8p in determining rfc.” | 12 |
| 4 | Hancock v. Astrue | green | “the claimant has the burden of production and proof in steps 1-4.” | 9 |
| 5 | Gary Wilkinson v. Commissioner Social Security | green | “o rule or regulation compels an alj to incorporate into an rfc every finding made by a medical source simply because the alj gives the source's opinion as a whole 'significant' weight.” | 8 |
| 6 | Anthony Reeves v. Comm'r of Social Security | green | “even where an alj provides 'great weight' to an opinion, there is no requirement that an alj adopt a opinions verbatim; nor is the alj required to adopt the limitations wholesale.” | 7 |
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.