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105 F.3d 401 · 1997

Citation profile

47
cited by 47 later decisions
November 2014
most recently cited

13 federal appellate · 4 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Hinkle v. Apfel (1997), Maresh v. Barnhart (2006)

13 federal appellate · 4 district ·

220199720002010decided

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Relationships

Relies on Cook v. Bowen · Branham v. Heckler · Edwards v. Heckler · Nieves v. Secretary of Health & Human Services

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “has a physical or additional mental impairment that has a 'more than slight or minimal' effect on his ability to perform work.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “... “[t]he issue is not whether the claimant can perform gainful activity; rather, it is whether he has a[n] ... impairment, other than his conceded mental impairment, which provides significant work-related limited function— in other words, whether the second prong of § 12.05(C) is met.” Sird v. Chater, 105 F.3d 401, 403 (8th Cir.1997) (reversing ALJ’s denial of benefits for a claimant who met Listing 12.05C).”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “carefully reviewed the language of this listing and finds that while the post traumatic stress disorder is another severe mental impairment, it does not impose an additional and significant work-related limitation of function in that her mild mental retardation and PTSD both restrict the claimant to simple, 3-to-4 step instructions and tasks in unskilled work activity.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.