Flanery v. Chater’s Empirical Analysis
112 F.3d 346 · 1997
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Steele v. Barnhart (2002), Green-Younger v. Barnhart (2003)
10 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Brand v. Secretary of Department of Health Education and Welfare · Dixon v. Sullivan · Stout v. Shalala · Andler v. Chater · Oberst v. Shalala
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“11.03 Epilepsy-Minor motor seizures (petit mal, psychomotor, or focal), documented by EEG and by detailed description of a typical seizure pattern, including all associated phenomena; occurring more frequently than once weekly in spite of at least 3 months of prescribed treatment. With alteration of awareness or loss of consciousness and transient postictal manifestations of unconventional behavior or significant interference with activity during the day.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a] patient's report of complaints, or history, is an essential diagnostic tool.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] grand mal seizure is characterized by a loss of consciousness with generalized tonic-clonic seizures. A tonic-clonic seizure is a spasm consisting of a convulsive twitching of the muscles.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Tate v. Apfel
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.