Johnson v. Apfel’s Empirical Analysis
189 F.3d 561 · 1999
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Sims v. Apfel (2000), Steele v. Barnhart (2002)
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
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 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · Sarchet v. Chater · Herron v. Shalala · Pope 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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“give the [ALJ's] opinion a commonsensical reading rather than nitpicking at it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.