Bess v. Barnhart’s Empirical Analysis
337 F.3d 988 · 2003
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs · Hill v. John Chezik Imports · Turner v. Bowen · Malan Johnston Paul Revere Life Insurance Company Now Known As Provident Insurance Company
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any individual, after any final decision of the Commissioner of Social Security made after a hearing to which he was a party ..., may obtain a review of such decision by a civil action commenced within sixty days after the mailing to him of notice of such decision or within such further time as the Commissioner of Social Security may allow.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]quitable tolling has been allowed only in cases where government has hindered claimant's attempts to exercise rights by acting in a misleading or clandestine way.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Torres 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.