Berger v. Astrue’s Empirical Analysis
516 F.3d 539 · 2008
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Elder v. Astrue (2008), Liskowitz v. Astrue (2009)
6 federal appellate · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Clifford v. Apfel · Schmidt v. Astrue · Rice v. Barnhart · Hofslien 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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“adequate evidence contained in the record and must explain why contrary evidence does not persuade.”
1 later decision 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.