Benecke v. Barnhart’s Empirical Analysis
379 F.3d 587 · 2004
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 49 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 214 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Lingenfelter v. Astrue (2007), Garrison v. Colvin (2014)
16 federal appellate · 49 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 Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Ventura · Florida Power & Light Co. v. Lorion · Fair v. Bowen · United States v. Patterson · Sarchet v. Chater
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 214 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the record has been fully developed and further administrative proceedings would serve no useful purpose; (2) the ALJ has failed to provide legally sufficient reasons for rejecting evidence, whether claimant testimony or medical opinion; and (3) if the improperly discredited evidence were credited as true, the ALJ would be required to find the claimant disabled on remand.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]o date there are no laboratory tests to confirm the diagnosis.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Allowing the Commissioner to decide the issue again would create an unfair 'heads we win; tails, let's play again' system of disability benefits adjudication.”
6 later decisions 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.