Anderson v. Barnhart’s Empirical Analysis
344 F.3d 809 · 2003
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Stormo v. Barnhart (2004), Wagner v. Astrue (2007)
10 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 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Polaski v. Heckler · McCoy v. Schweiker · Kelley v. Callahan · Sheila J. Young v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of Social Security · Cox v. Apfel
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have upheld an ALJ’s decision to discount or even disregard the opinion of a treating physician (1) where other medical assessments are supported by better or more thorough medical evidence, or (2) where a treating physician renders inconsistent opinions that undermine the credibility of such opinions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wagner 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.