Barker v. Shalala’s Empirical Analysis

40 F.3d 789 · 1994

Citation profile

cited by 93 later decisions

July 2020

most recently cited

20 federal appellate · 6 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Jones v. Apfel (1999), Doyal v. Barnhart (2003)

20 federal appellate · 6 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

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)

Relies on King v. Heckler · J.c. Wyckoff & Associates, Inc. v. The Standard Fire Insurance Company · Mimms v. Heckler · Smith v. Secretary of Health & Human Services

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

“is not the sole source of admissible information concerning jobs.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Washington v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec. · Lindell Washington v. Commissioner of Social Security
“The treating physician doctrine is based on the assumption that a medical professional who has dealt with a claimant and his maladies over a long period of time will have a deeper insight into the medical condition of the claimant than will a person who has examined a claimant but once, or who has only seen the claimant's medical records.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Luteyn v. Commissioner of Social Security · 127 F. Supp. 2d 820 - Bankston v. Commissioner of Social Security
“[i]t would be manifestly inappropriate to make the [DOT ] the sole source of evidence concerning gainful employment”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Vincent E. Mont v. Shirley S. Chater, Commissioner of Social Security · Curtis C. Cline v. Shirley S. Chater, Commissioner of Social Security

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.