Stephens v. Shalala’s Empirical Analysis
46 F.3d 37 · 1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2015
3 federal appellate · 2 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 · McClees v. Shalala · Smith v. Heckler · Battles v. Sullivan · Neely v. Shalala
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where there are inconsistencies in the evidence as a whole, the [Commissioner] may discount subjective complaints.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pena v. Chater
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.