Tidwell v. Apfel’s Empirical Analysis
161 F.3d 599 · 1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Bayliss v. Barnhart (2005), Silva Tonapetyan v. William A. Halter, Commissioner of Social Security Administration (2001)
2 federal appellate · 6 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr · United States v. Winstar Corp. · Flaten v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Smolen v. Chater · Johnson 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“more than a mere scintilla but less than a preponderance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]t all times, the burden is on the claimant to establish [his] entitlement to disability insurance benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parra v. Astrue“Our review of the Commissioner's decision is`essentially the same as that undertaken by the district court.'”
1 later decision 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.