Overman v. Astrue’s Empirical Analysis
546 F.3d 456 · 2008
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Terry v. Astrue (2009), Pearson v. Colvin (2015)
9 federal appellate · 3 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 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Steele v. Barnhart · Briscoe ex rel. Taylor v. Barnhart · Schmidt v. Astrue · Carey v. Apfel · Robert M. Haddock v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner, Social Security Administration
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Here, the ALJ satisfied this first step by asking the VE if his testimony was consistent with the DOT; the VE answered (wrongly, as it turns out) that it was. If evidence from a VE 'appears to conflict with the DOT,' SSR 00-4p requires further inquiry: an ALJ must obtain 'a reasonable explanation for the apparent conflict.' "). Put another way, the provision articulates a general duty to "ask about”
2 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.