Barnhart Commissioner of Social Security v. Peabody Coal Co et al.’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
261 federal appellate · 44 district · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 639 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Bowles v. Russell (2007), Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. SW Gen., Inc. (2017)
261 federal appellate · 44 district · 79 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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
reviewedDixie Fuel Co. v. Commissioner of Social Security (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3142 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 19 U.S.C. § 1621 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 21 U.S.C. § 881 (§ 511 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 9704 · 26 U.S.C. § 9706 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 30 U.S.C. § 1231 · 42 U.S.C. § 12113 (§ 103 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990)
Relies on Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit · Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer · Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital · Morton v. Mancari
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 639 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not apply to every statutory listing or grouping; it has force only when the items expressed are members of an `associated group or series,' justifying the inference that items not mentioned were excluded by deliberate choice, not inadvertence.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We do not read the enumeration of one case to exclude another unless it is fair to suppose that Congress considered the unnamed possibility and meant to say no to it.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The canon depends on identifying a series of two or more terms or things that should be understood to go hand in hand, which [is] abridged in circumstances supporting a sensible inference that the term left out must have been meant to be excluded.”) (internal quotation marks and citations omitted). 2 .”
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.