Lord v. Apfel’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
46 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Dube v. Astrue (2011), 354 F. Supp. 2d 40 - Coggon v. Barnhart (2005)
46 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Shalala v. Schaefer · Irlanda Ortiz v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Rodriguez v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Goodermote 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts have held that a [hearing officer]’s failure to address a specific piece or pieces of evidence did not undermine the validity of [his] conclusion, for example, when that conclusion was supported by citations to substantial medical evidence in the record and the unaddressed evidence was either cumulative of the evidence discussed by the [hearing officer] or otherwise failed to support the claimant’s position.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he First Circuit has held that an ALJ's written decision need not directly address every piece of evidence in the administrative record”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young v. SSA · Moss v. SSA“Motion for Order Affirming the Decision of the Commissioner”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Arsenault v. SSA · Snow v. SSA
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.