Keys v. Barnhart’s Empirical Analysis
347 F.3d 990 · 2003
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Craft v. Astrue (2008), Skarbek v. Barnhart (2004)
27 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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United States v. Mead Corp. · Auer v. Robbins · Christensen v. Harris County · Sullivan v. Zebley
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘agency briefs, at least below the Supreme Court level, normally are not reviewed by the members of the agency itself; and it is odd to think of Congress delegating lawmaking power to unreviewed staff decisions.’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Marked” and “extreme” limitations in a given domain can be established by standardized test scores that are two or three standard deviations, respectively, below the mean — that is, either in the lowest 2.5 percent of the distribution or the lowest 1 percent — provided, however, that the scores are representative of day-to-day functioning. 20 C.F.R. §§ 416 .926a(e)(2)(iii), 416.926a(e)(3)(iii). Test scores are not conclusive, therefore, and the bulk of 20 C.F.R. § 416 .926a is devoted to “general descriptions of each domain” against which a claimant’s functioning may be compared; and so when the dust settles, the agency retains substantial discretion!)]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“takes personal responsibility for the decision.” See David J. Barron & Elena Kagan, Chevron’s Nondelegation Doctrine, 2001 Sup.Ct. Rev. 201 , 204. Applying this limitation to Auer-Seminole Rock deference would advance the same values of administrative”
1 later decision 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.