Torres v. Chater’s Empirical Analysis
125 F.3d 166 · 1997
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Brown v. Apfel (1999), Maggard v. Apfel (1999)
9 federal appellate · 2 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 Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Lindh v. Murphy · Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. · United States Railroad Retirement Board v. Fritz
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“finally adjudicated by the Commissioner of Social Security”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n individual shall not be considered to be disabled for purposes of this subchapter if alcoholism or drug addiction would (but for this subchapter) be a contributing factor material to the Commissioner's determination that the individual is disabled.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Maggard v. Apfel · Brown v. Apfel“there is pending a request for either administrative or judicial review with respect to such claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.