Forney v. Apfel’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
86 federal appellate · 8 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 215 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Seavey v. Barnhart (2001), Halray Harman v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (2000)
86 federal appellate · 8 district · 18 state decisions
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedForney v. Chater (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Bowen v. Yuckert · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · Deposit Guaranty National Bank v. Roper · Shalala v. Schaefer · Parr v. United States
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 215 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he court shall have power to enter, upon the pleadings and transcript of the record, a judgment affirming, modifying, or reversing the decision of the Commissioner of Social Security, with or without remanding the cause for a rehearing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“permit an inference that `finality' turns on the order's importance, or the availability (or lack of availability) of an avenue for appeal from the different, later, agency determination that might emerge after remand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“this Court . . . has clearly stated that a party is `aggrieved' and ordinarily can appeal a decision `granting in part and denying in part the remedy requested'”
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.