Burns v. Barnhart’s Empirical Analysis

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20 federal appellate · 25 district · 2 state decisions

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

1. “[t]his omission from the hypothetical runs afoul of our directive in [ Chrupcala v. Heckler , 829 F.2d 1269 , 1276 (3d Cir. 1987),] that a hypothetical question posed to a vocational expert must reflect all of a claimant's impairments,”

   8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hess v. Comm'r Soc. Sec. · Sawyer v. Berryhill

2. “1. Marked restriction of activities of daily living; or 2. Marked difficulties in maintaining social functioning; or 3. Marked difficulties in maintaining concentration, persistence, or pace; or 4. Repeated episodes of decompensation, each of extended duration[.]”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hess v. Comm'r Soc. Sec. · De Rohn v. Comm Social Security

3. “[d]rowsiness often accompanies the taking of medication, and it should not be viewed as disabling unless the record references serious functional limitations”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dougherty v. Astrue · Rongers v. Univ. Hosps. of Cleveland, Inc., 91669 (5-7-2009)