Mills v. Apfel’s Empirical Analysis
244 F.3d 1 · 2001
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 84 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Universal Health Services Inc. v. Thompson (2004), Liston v. Unum Corporation Officer Severance Plan (2003)
10 federal appellate · 84 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 Service v. Dulles · United Families of America v. Kendrick · Andrijevic v. Kelleran · Sims v. Apfel · Goodermote 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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(at least nominally), the Commissioner says that we may review only the ALJ decision, judging it solely on the evidence presented to the ALJ. Four circuits have taken this position, at least in part; by contrast, five circuits say that judicial review tests all evidence submitted to the ALJ and the Appeals Council, even if the latter declines to review the ALJ decision. Id., at 4 (emphasis in original). Finding both positions deficient, the court fashioned a distinct rule for application in this circuit. In creating that rule, the court observed that the Social Security Act”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Orben v. SSA · Orben v. SSA“an egregiously mistaken ground for this action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Orben v. SSA · Orben v. SSA“[t]he impact of a no-waiver approach ... at the ALJ level ... could cause havoc, severely undermining the administrative process”
2 later decisions 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.