Nelson v. Apfel’s Empirical Analysis
131 F.3d 1228 · 1997
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Shinseki, Secretary of Veterans Affairs v. Sanders (2009), Clifford v. Apfel (2000)
22 federal appellate · 4 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 Jones v. Jackson · United States v. Granite Construction Co. · Diaz v. Chater · Garfield v. Schweiker · Luna 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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An individual under the age of 18 shall be considered disabled for the purposes of this subchapter if that individual has a medically determinable physical or mental impairment, which results in marked and severe functional limitations, and which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“credible, supported by clinical findings, and relevant”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen the claimant is unrepresented by counsel, the ALJ has a duty to ‘scrupulously and conscientiously probe into, inquire of, and explore for all relevant facts.’”
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.