Brown v. Barnhart’s Empirical Analysis
390 F.3d 535 · 2004
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Lacroix v. Barnhart (2006), Wildman v. Astrue (2010)
13 federal appellate · 7 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 Polaski v. Heckler · Lowe v. Apfel · McKinney v. Apfel · Black v. Apfel · Tome v. Schweiker
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If an impairment can be controlled by treatment or medication, it cannot be considered disabling.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In conducting this review, we determine whether the ALJ’s decision to deny benefits is based on legal error, and “whether the findings of fact are supported by substantial evidence in the record as a whole.” Lowe v. Apfel, 226 F.3d 969 971 (8th Cir.2000). “Substantial evidence is less than a preponderance, but is enough that a reasonable mind would find it adequate to support the decision.” Reutter ex rel. Reutter v. Barnhart, 372 F.3d 946, 950 (8th Cir. 2004).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`a lack of sufficient financial resources to follow prescribed treatment to remedy a disabling impairment may be . . . an independent basis for finding justifiable cause for noncompliance [with prescribed treatment]'”
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.