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4 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 61 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 Anthony v. Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., Secretary Health and Human Services.

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1 Elizabeth Anthony v. Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., Secretary Health and Human Services Anchor
ca5 · 1992
green “the inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months.” 27
2 Carol A. HOLLIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Otis R. BOWEN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee
ca5 · 1988
green “medical assessment of an applicant's impairments with descriptions by physicians, the applicant, or others of any limitations on the applicant's ability to work.” 14
3 Lawrence E. Martin v. Margaret M. Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant
ca5 · 1984
green “more than a search for evidence supporting the commissioner's findings.” 11
4 Lawrence E. Martin v. Margaret M. Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant
ca5 · 1984
green “must scrutinize the record and take into account whatever fairly detracts from the substantiality of the evidence supporting the” 9

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