Thomas v. Barnhart’s Empirical Analysis
278 F.3d 947 · 2002
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 53 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 434 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Bayliss v. Barnhart (2005), Orn v. Astrue (2007)
33 federal appellate · 53 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. § 1291 · 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 Magallanes v. Bowen · Bunnell v. Sullivan · Tackett v. Apfel · 16155b Dar Morgan v. Commissioner of the Social Security Administration
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 434 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a credibility determination with findings sufficiently specific to permit the court to conclude that the ALJ did not arbitrarily discredit claimant's testimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here the evidence is susceptible to more than one rational interpretation, one of which supports the ALJ's decision, the ALJ's conclusion must be upheld.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The required level of severity for these disorders is met when the requirements in both A and B are satisfied, or when the requirements in C are satisfied. A.Medically documented persistence, either continuous or intermittent, of one or more of the following: 1. Delusions or hallucinations; or 2. Catatonic or other grossly disorganized behavior; or 3. Incoherence, loosening of associations, illogical thinking, or poverty of content of speech if associated with one of the following: A. Blunt affect; or B. Flat affect; or C. Inappropriate affect; or 4. Emotional withdrawal and/or isolation. AND B. Resulting in at least two of the following: 1. Marked restriction on activities of daily living; or 2. Marked difficulties in maintaining social functioning; or 3. Deficiencies of concentration, persistence or pace resulting in frequent failure to complete tasks in a timely fashion (in work settings or elsewhere); or 4. Repeated episodes of deterioration or decompensation in work or work-like settings which cause the individual to withdraw from that situation or to experience exacerbation of signs or symptoms (which may include deterioration of adaptive behaviors). OR C. Medically documented history of one or more episodes of acute symptoms, signs and functional limitations which at the time met the requirements in A and B of this listing, although these symptoms or signs are currently attenuated by medication or psychosocial support, and one of the following: 1. Repeated episodes of ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Frost 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.