Sims v. Barnhart’s Empirical Analysis
442 F.3d 536 · 2006
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Craft v. Astrue (2008), Prochaska v. Barnhart (2006)
15 federal appellate ·
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 Thomas v. Barnhart · Foote v. Chater · Zurawski v. Halter · Carradine v. Barnhart · Easter v. Bowen
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Only if the trier of fact grounds his credibility finding in an observation or argument that is unreasonable or unsupported . . . can the finding be reversed.”
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.