Sultan v. Barnhart’s Empirical Analysis
368 F.3d 857 · 2004
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Guilliams v. Barnhart (2005), Hacker v. Barnhart (2006)
17 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 McKinney v. Apfel · Shontos v. Barnhart · Pena v. Chater · Dixon v. Barnhart · Strongson v. Barnhart
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“less than a preponderance, but is enough that a reasonable mind would find it adequate to support the Commissioner's conclusion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Commissioner may rely on a vocational expert's response to a properly formulated hypothetical question to meet her burden of showing that jobs exist in significant numbers which a person with the claimant's residual functional capacity can perform.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Condon v. Berryhill“[t]he ALJ is required to recontact medical sources ... only if the available evidence does not provide an adequate basis for determining the merits of the disability claim.”
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.