11 canonical passages across 8 cases, quoted by 774 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 Ficca v. Astrue.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ficca v. Astrue Anchor | green | “he court has plenary review of all legal issues . . . .” | 347 |
| 2 | Burton v. Schweiker | green | “the secretary's determination as to the status of a claim requires the correct application of the law to the facts.” | 238 |
| 3 | United States v. Craig Claxton | green | “parties . . . bear the responsibility to comb the record and point the court to the facts that support their arguments.” | 26 |
| 4 | Sharon Bingham Matthews v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of Social Security | green | “when the appeals council has denied review the district court may affirm, modify, or reverse the commissioner's decision, with or without a remand based on the record that was made before the alj (sentence four review).” | 22 |
| 5 | Consolo v. Federal Maritime Commission | green | “when the appeals council has denied review the district court may affirm, modify, or reverse the commissioner's decision, with or without a remand based on the record that was made before the alj (sentence four review).” | 18 |
| 6 | Ethel Burnett v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration | green | “in making a residual functional capacity determination, the alj must consider all evidence before him.” | 11 |
| 7 | Diaz v. Commissioner of Social Security | green | “in determining whether there is substantial evidence to support an administrative law judge's decision, we owe deference to his evaluation of the evidence assessment of the credibility of witnesses....” | 10 |
| 8 | Gonzalez v. Astrue | green | “in determining whether substantial evidence supports the commissioner's findings, the court may not undertake a de novo review of the commissioner's decision and may not re-weigh the evidence of the record.” | 8 |
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.