Cox v. Astrue’s Empirical Analysis
495 F.3d 614 · 2007
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Moore v. Astrue (2009), Perks v. Astrue (2012)
21 federal appellate · 10 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Robinson v. Sullivan · Stormo v. Barnhart · Jerold H. Nevland v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of Social Security · Robert J. Lauer v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of Social Security · Cox v. Apfel
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Substantial evidence is less than a preponderance but is enough that a reasonable mind would find it adequate to support the Commissioner's conclusion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Even though the RFC assessment draws from medical sources for support, it is ultimately an administrative determination reserved to the Commissioner.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Comment: One commenter recommended that we use the definition of mental retardation (MR) found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed. 1994) (DSM-IV), published by the American Psychiatric Association, as the definition of MR in listing 12.05 and 112.05. Response: We did not adopt the comment. The definition of MR we use in our listings is consistent with, if not identical to, the definitions of MR used by the leading professional organizations. The four major professional organizations in the United States that deal with MR have each established their own definition of MR. While all the definitions require significant deficits in intellectual functioning, as evidenced by IQ scores of approximately 70 or below, age of onset and the method of measuring the required deficits in adaptive functioning differ among the organizations. For example, the definition of MR used in the DSM-IV is predominantly based on (but not identical to) the revised definition of MR promulgated by the American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR) in 1993. The DSM-IV states: “The essential feature of mental retardation is significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning (further defined as an IQ standard score of approximately 70 or below), that is accompanied by significant limitations in at least two of the following skill areas: communication, self-care, home living, social/interpersonal skills, use of community resources, self-direction, functional academic”
2 later decisions 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.