Elder v. Astrue’s Empirical Analysis
529 F.3d 408 · 2008
Citation profile
22 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Simila v. Astrue (2009), Liskowitz v. Astrue (2009)
22 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. § 301 (§ 1 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Sarchet v. Chater · Hattie Dixon v. Larry G. Massanari, Acting Commissioner of the Social Security Administration · Powers v. Apfel · Schmidt 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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonable minds could differ concerning whether [the claimant] is disabled.”
4 later decisions 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.