Oberst v. Shalala’s Empirical Analysis

2 F.3d 249 · 1993

Citation profile

cited by 49 later decisions

March 2018

most recently cited

11 federal appellate · 8 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Roe v. Chater (1996), William B. Johnson v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of Social Security (2001)

11 federal appellate · 8 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 Consolo v. Federal Maritime Commission · McCoy v. Schweiker · Browning v. Sullivan · Robinson v. Sullivan · Baker v. Heckler

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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“Substantial evidence `is less than a preponderance, but enough so that a reasonable mind might find it adequate to support the conclusion.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Damian FLYNN, Appellant, v. Shirley S. CHATER, Commissioner of Social Security, Appellee · Patricia A. LAWRENCE, Appellant, v. Shirley S. CHATER, Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, Appellee
“'if it is possible to draw two inconsistent positions from the evidence and one of those positions represents the agency's findings, we must affirm the decision.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Damian FLYNN, Appellant, v. Shirley S. CHATER, Commissioner of Social Security, Appellee · Clarke v. Chater
“1. The ALJ failed to fully and fairly develop the Record concerning the Plaintiffs mental impairments; 2. The ALJ’s conclusion, that no severe mental impairments existed, is not supported by the Record as a whole; and 3. The ALJ’s credibility determinations are not supported by substantial evidence on the Record as a whole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
e.g. 986 F. Supp. 1216 - Leitzke v. Callahan

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.