Blea v. Barnhart’s Empirical Analysis
466 F.3d 903 · 2006
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 17 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Clifton v. Chater · Hackett v. Barnhart · O'Dell v. Shalala · Qualls v. Apfel · Fischer-Ross v. Barnhart
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““when there is no contemporaneous medical documentation, we ask whether the evidence is ambiguous regarding the possibility that the onset of [the claimant’s] disability occurred before the expiration of her insured status. If the medical evidence is ambiguous and a retroactive inference is necessary, SSR 83-20 requires the ALJ to call upon the services of a medical advisor to insure that the determination of onset is based upon a ‘legitimate medical basis.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it may be possible, based on the medical evidence[,] to reasonably infer that the onset of the disabling impairments occurred some time prior to the date of the first recorded medical examination”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rossiter v. SSA
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.