Smith v. Halter’s Empirical Analysis
307 F.3d 377 · 2001
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Stubbs-Danielson v. Astrue (2008), Colvin v. Barnhart (2007)
10 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 Richardson v. Perales · Garner v. Heckler · John VARLEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant-Appellee
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the ALJ went beyond this simple frequency assessment to develop a complete and accurate assessment of Smith’s mental impairment, as Varley requires. In particular, the ALJ relied on the testimony of four physicians who characterized Smith’s concentration problems as minimal or negligible. The ALJ then translated Smith’s condition into the only concrete restrictions available to him—examining psychiatrist Schweid’s recommended restrictions against quotas, complexity, stress, etc.— and duly incorporated them into his hypothetical to the vocational expert.”
3 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.