Bauer v. Astrue’s Empirical Analysis
532 F.3d 606 · 2008
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Moss v. Astrue (2009), Scott v. Astrue (2011)
16 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Clifford v. Apfel · Orn v. Astrue · Washington v. Shalala · Mills v. Apfel · Wagner 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who has a chronic disease, whether physical or psychiatric, and is under continuous treatment for it with heavy drugs, is likely to have better days and worse days; that is true of the plaintiff in this case. Suppose that half the time she is well enough that she could work, and half the time she is not. Then she could not hold down a full-time job. That is likely to be the situation of a person who has bipolar disorder that responds erratically to treatment.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The plaintiff] is heavily medicated, and this enables her to cope with the challenges of daily living, and would doubtless enable her to work- on some: days. But the administrative law judge disregarded uncontradicted evidence that the plaintiffs [13-year-old] son cooks most meals, washes the dishes, does the laundry, and helps with the grocery shopping.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Equally obviously, once well-supported contradicting evidence is introduced, the treating physician’s evidence is no longer entitled to controlling weight. At that point, “the treating physician’s evidence is just one more piece of evidence for the administrative law judge to weigh.... ” The [treating-physician] rule goes on to list various factors that the administrative law judge should consider, such as how often the treating physician has examined the claimant, whether the physician is a specialist in the condition claimed to be disabling, and so forth. The checklist is designed to help the administrative law judge decide how much weight to give the treating physician’s evidence. When he has decided how much actual weight to give it, there seems no room for him to attach a presumptive weight to it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Masters v. Astrue
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.