Travis v. Astrue’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 federal appellate · 5 district ·

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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Substantial evidence is less than a preponderance, but enough that a reasonable mind would find it adequate to support the Commissioner's conclusions.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nash v. Comm'r, Soc. Sec. Admin. · Twyford v. Comm'r, Social Security Administration

2. “Substantial evidence is merely such relevant evidence that a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion. Substantial evidence on the record as a whole, however, requires a more scrutinizing analysis. In the review of an administrative decision, the substantiality of evidence must take into account whatever in the record fairly detracts from its weight. Thus, the court must also take into consideration the weight of the evidence in the record and apply a balancing test to evidence which is contradictory.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Heino v. Astrue · Halverson v. Astrue

3. “If substantial evidence supports the Commissioner's conclusions, this court does not reverse even if it would reach a different conclusion, or merely because substantial evidence also supports the contrary outcome.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nash v. Comm'r, Soc. Sec. Admin. · Jessie Nash v. Commissioner, Social Security