Smith v. Shalala’s Empirical Analysis
46 F.3d 45 · 1995
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Burns v. Barnhart (2002), 14702b v. Dar Johnson
12 federal appellate · 3 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 McCoy v. Schweiker · Mimms v. Heckler · Campbell v. Bowen · Tom v. Heckler · Martin v. Sullivan
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen expert testimony conflicts with the DOT, the DOT controls.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Queen v. Chater · Burns v. Barnhart“was missing most of two fingers on his left hand and thus had a loss of finger dexterity and manipulation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Page v. Astrue“ALJ determined that Smith could not lift more than 20 pounds”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Page v. Astrue
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.