Pierce v. Apfel’s Empirical Analysis
173 F.3d 704 · 1999
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2011
3 federal appellate · 1 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 Bowen v. Yuckert · McCoy v. Schweiker · Woolf v. Shalala · Thomas v. Sullivan · Smith 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Substantial evidence is relevant evidence which a reasonable mind would accept as adequate to support the [ALJ's] conclusion,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 98-1480“Medical Assessment of Ability to Do Work-Related Activities (Mental).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.