Goff v. Barnhart’s Empirical Analysis
421 F.3d 785 · 2005
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 15 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 196 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Wagner v. Astrue (2007), Hacker v. Barnhart (2006)
48 federal appellate · 15 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 · Prosch v. Apfel · Kelley v. Callahan · Dennis W. Pearsall v. Larry Massanari, Acting Commissioner of Social Security
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 196 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the claimant is gainfully employed, (2) whether the claimant has a severe impairment, (3) whether the impairment meets the criteria of any Social Security Income listings, (4) whether the impairment prevents the claimant from performing past relevant work, and (5) whether the impairment necessarily prevents the claimant from doing any other work.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Medhaug v. Astrue · Reed v. Astrue“[i]f, after reviewing the record, the court finds it is possible to draw two inconsistent positions from the evidence and one of those positions represents the ALJ's findings, the court must affirm the ALJ's decision.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Whitman v. Colvin · Dols v. Saul“`If a claimant fails to meet the criteria at any step in the evaluation of disability, the process ends and the claimant is determined to be not disabled.'”
5 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.