Ronda S. CRAIG, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Shirley S. CHATER, Commissioner of Social Security, Defendant-Appellee
- Decided
- February 23, 1996
- Docket
- 94-2590
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
Cited 2,555 timesSuperseded by statute (verified)Possible negative treatment: superseded by statute (2 of 116 verified; none is a verified overruling) · Archibald v. Kijakazi
What later courts said
- holding that, “if a physician’s opinion is not supported by clinical evidence . . ., it should be accorded significantly less weight” — Fagan v. Kijakazi (2021)
- holding that claimant’s allegations of pain need not be accepted to extent that they conflict with the record — Albert v. Bisignano (2025)
- holding that a medical source does not transform the claimant's subjective complaints into objective findings simply by recording them in his narrative report — Ungemach v. Commissioner of Social Security (2019)
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How the opinion begins
Affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded by published opinion. Judge LUTTIG wrote the opinion, in which Judge WILKINS and Judge WILLIAMS Joined.
OPINION LUTTIG, Circuit Judge:
Ronda S. Craig appeals from a judgment of the district court upholding the determination of the Secretary of Health and Human Services that she was ineligible for disability insurance and Supplemental Security Income. For the reasons that follow, we remand the case to the ALJ for further consideration.
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Ronda S. CRAIG, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Shirley S. CHATER, Commissioner of Social Security, Defendant-Appellee, 76 F.3d 585 (1996)Read the full opinion
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