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← 266 FSUPP3D 545 - Sinclair v. Berryhill

Sinclair v. Berryhill’s Empirical Analysis

2017

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
February 2018
most recently cited

2 district ·

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 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 · Bowen v. Yuckert · Irlanda Ortiz v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Seavey v. Barnhart · 15101b Manso-Pizarro v. Secretary of Health and 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the hearing officer erred by assigning little weight to Dr. Funa's opinion without an adequate explanation for doing so,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “overlooks the reality that jobs have changed over the past forty years,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “it is based on a flawed residual functional capacity determination.”
    1 later decision 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.