Hardman v. Barnhart’s Empirical Analysis

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6 federal appellate · 19 district ·

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

1. “'More troubling, it appears that the Commissioner has repeatedly been using the same boilerplate paragraph to reject the testimony of numerous claimants, without linking the conclusory statements contained therein to evidence in the record or even tailoring the paragraph to the facts at hand, almost without regard to whether the boilerplate paragraph has any relevance to the case.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 972 F. Supp. 2d 154 - Doucette v. Astrue

2. “pick and choose among medical reports, using portions of evidence favorable to his position while ignoring other evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cotton v. Comm'r of the Soc. Sec. Admin.