William B. Vitek v. Robert H. Finch, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare

How courts have described this case

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• “the opinion of a claimant’s treating physician is entitled to great weight, for it reflects an expert judgment based on a continuing observation of the patient’s condition over a prolonged period of time”
• where ALJ’s determination is in clear disregard of the overwhelming weight of the evidence, a court can modify or reverse the ALJ’s decision with or without remanding the case for rehearing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).