Burch v. Barnhart’s Empirical Analysis
400 F.3d 676 · 2005
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 42 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 309 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Orn v. Astrue (2007), Tommasetti v. Astrue (2008)
16 federal appellate · 42 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 Magallanes v. Bowen · Andrews v. Shalala · Bunnell v. Sullivan · Fair v. Bowen · 16155b Dar Morgan v. Commissioner of the Social Security Administration
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 309 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Is the claimant presently engaged in substantial gainful activity? If so, the claimant is not disabled. If not, proceed to step two. (2) Is the claimant’s alleged impairment sufficiently severe to limit claimant’s ability to work? If not, the claimant is not disabled. If so, proceed to step three. (3) Does the claimant’s impairment, or combination of impairments, meet or equal an impairment listed in 20 C.F.R. Part 404, Subpart P, Appendix 1? If so, the claimant is disabled. If not, proceed to step four. (4) Does the claimant possess the residual functional capacity to perform claimant’s past relevant work? If so, the claimant is not disabled. If not, proceed to step five. (5) Does the claimant’s residual functional capacity, when considered with the claimant’s age, education, and work experience, allow claimant to adjust to other work that exists in significant numbers in the national economy? If so, the claimant is not disabled. If not, the claimant is disabled.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where evidence is susceptible to more than one rational interpretation, it is the ALJ's conclusion that must be upheld.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] decision of the ALJ will not be reversed for errors that are harmless.”
3 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.