Ella McCruter v. Otis R. Bowen, Secretary of Health and Human Services

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• recognizing that the severity of an impairment “must be measured in terms of its effect upon [a claimant’s] ability to work”
• holding that an administrative decision is not supported by “substantial evidence” where the ALJ acknowledges only the evidence favorable to the decision and disregards contrary evidence
• holding that the severity of a medically determinable impairment must be determined with regard to the effect of the impairment on a plaintiff’s ability to work
• holding that the severity of an impairment “must be measured in terms of its effect upon the ability to work, and not simply in terms of deviation from purely medical standards of bodily perfection or normality”
• noting that severity of a disability “must be measured in terms of its effect upon ability to work”
• explaining that an impairment's severity “must be measured in terms of its effect upon ability to work”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).