21 F. Supp. 2d 76 - DiVirgilio v. Apfel’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2016
6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Thomas v. Arn · Bowen v. Yuckert · United States v. Valencia-Copete
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the ALJ did not consider the non-examining doctor's advisory opinion[] alone but in the context of other evidence, including the treating doctor's reports, . . . and [his] credibility assessment of the [claimant's] pain. Taken together, this evidence is substantial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moss v. SSA“a court must affirm the Commissioner's decision so long as it is supported by substantial evidence, even if the record could arguably justify a different result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young v. SSA“such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McGrath v. SSA
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.