Sawyer v. Colvin’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 408 (§ 208 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Clifford v. Apfel · Craft v. Astrue · Prochaska v. Barnhart · Bjornson v. Astrue · Villano v. Astrue
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Yet a mild, or even a moderate, limitation in an area of mental functioning 'does not prevent an individual from functioning satisfactorily.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tracie H. v. Saul
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.