Steele v. Barnhart’s Empirical Analysis
290 F.3d 936 · 2002
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 210 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Scott v. Barnhart (2002), Lopez ex rel. Lopez v. Barnhart (2003)
42 federal appellate · 1 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 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Clifford v. Apfel · Sarchet v. Chater · Clifton v. Chater · Burnett v. Commissioner of 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 210 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“accurate and logical bridge from the evidence to [his] conclusion”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“lacks evidentiary support or is so poorly articulated as to prevent meaningful review, the case must be remanded.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[N]othing in the record reflects that the vocational expert independently knew of all the limitations related to Steele’s depression that were omitted by the ALJ. True, the vocational expert testified at length about how bouts of hostility brought on by Steele’s depression might affect his vocational profile. And it is also true that the jobs identified for Steele to work (such as housekeeper and security guard) might not demand levels of sociability or concentration beyond his capabilities. See Donahue v. Barnhart, 279 F.3d 441, 444 (7th Cir.2002). So our misgivings about this problem are not acute. But given the other difficulties in the case, we mention the ALJ’s incompletely formed hypothetical questions as well.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.