Clark v. Astrue’s Empirical Analysis
529 F.3d 1211 · 2008
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Lockwood v. Commissioner Social Security Administration (2010), Crawford v. Astrue (2009)
7 federal appellate · 6 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. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 401 (§ 201 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 406 (§ 206 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · Christensen v. Harris County · Rubin v. United States · Gisbrecht v. Barnhart · Glendal B. Webb v. Elliot L. Richardson
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever a court renders a judgment favorable to a claimant under this sub-chapter who was represented before the court by an attorney, the court may determine and allow as part of its judgment a reasonable fee for such representation”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district court abuses its discretion if it does not apply the correct legal standard ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Payton v. Davis
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.