Senne v. Apfel’s Empirical Analysis
198 F.3d 1065 · 1999
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Burnett v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration (2000), Steele v. Barnhart (2002)
13 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 Clifton v. Chater · Benskin v. Bowen · Sird v. Chater · Lapinsky v. Secretary of Health & Human Services
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a deficiency in opinion-writing is not a sufficient reason for setting aside an administrative finding where the deficiency had no practical effect on the outcome of the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sloan v. Saul · Scott v. Barnhart“were undertaken solely for the purpose of relieving his pain, or for the purpose of restoring strength and function . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Avenetti v. Barnhart
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.