Lowry v. Barnhart’s Empirical Analysis
329 F.3d 1019 · 2003
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Parra v. Astrue (2007), Western Watersheds Project v. Kraayenbrink (2010)
21 federal appellate · 2 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. § 1361 · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona · Schweiker v. Hansen · Martinez-Serrano v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · David Conn and Carol Najera,s v. Paul L. Gabbert
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Save in unusual circumstances, we consider only the district court record on appeal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“indirect and incidental burden on professional practice is far too removed from a complete prohibition to support a due process claim”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To be judicially enforceable, a pronouncement must “prescribe substantive rules — not interpretive rules, general statements of policy or rules of agency organization, procedure or practice,” and must have been “promulgated pursuant to a specific statutory grant of authority and in conformance with the procedural requirements imposed by Congress.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Finch 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.