Britton v. Astrue’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.3d 799 · 2008
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2020
5 federal appellate ·
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. § 1382C (§ 1614 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Briscoe ex rel. Taylor v. Barnhart · Schmidt v. Astrue · Skinner v. Astrue · Donahue v. Barnhart · Haynes 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the lack of pretrial discovery in Social Security hearings can make the task of cross-examining a [vocational expert] quite difficult.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Krell v. Saul“[a] finding based on unreliable VE testimony is equivalent to a finding that is not supported by substantial evidence and must be vacated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chavez v. Berryhill
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.