Butera v. Apfel’s Empirical Analysis
173 F.3d 1049 · 1999
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Powers v. Apfel (2000), Scheck v. Barnhart (2004)
15 federal appellate ·
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 Richardson v. Perales · Batterton v. Francis · Schweiker v. Gray Panthers · Stephens v. Heckler · Diaz v. Chater
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no more than such 'relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. II v. G · Scheck v. Barnhart“[T]he findings of the Commissioner of Social Security as to any fact, if supported by substantial evidence, shall be conclusive.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The patient's regular physician may want to do a favor for a friend and client, and so the treating physician may too quickly find disability.”
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.