Woolf v. Shalala’s Empirical Analysis

3 F.3d 1210 · 1993

Citation profile

200

cited by 200 later decisions

March 2019

most recently cited

50 federal appellate · 37 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 200 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Dennis W. Pearsall v. Larry Massanari, Acting Commissioner of Social Security (2001), Krogmeier v. Barnhart (2002)

50 federal appellate · 37 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 42 U.S.C. § 1382C (§ 1614 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)

Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Polaski v. Heckler · Benskin v. Bowen · Baker v. Heckler

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 200 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“we must consider evidence that detracts from the [Commissioner's] decision as well as evidence that supports it.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Brown v. Apfel · Jack v. Apfel
“As is true in many disability cases, there is no doubt that the claimant is experiencing pain; the real issue is how severe that pain is.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 40 F. Supp. 2d 1108 - Rhodes v. Apfel · 648 F. Supp. 2d 1101 - Letson v. Astrue
“inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 109 F. Supp. 2d 1102 - Priest v. Apfel · 692 F. Supp. 2d 1088 - Pogue v. Astrue

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.