Owen v. Astrue’s Empirical Analysis
551 F.3d 792 · 2008
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Wildman v. Astrue (2010), Buckner v. Astrue (2011)
4 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 Prosch v. Apfel · Goff v. Barnhart · Wagner v. Astrue · Haynes v. Shalala · Reutter ex rel. Reutter v. Barnhart
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f, after reviewing the record, the court finds it is possible to draw two inconsistent positions from the evidence and one of those positions represents the ALJ's findings, the court must affirm the ALJ's decision.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an inquiry that requires us to consider evidence in the record that detracts from the ALJ's decision. Wagner v. Astrue , 499 F.3d 842 , 848 (8th Cir. 2007).”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“denial of benefits so long as the ALJ's decision falls within the 'available zone of choice.' " Bradley v. Astrue , 528 F.3d 1113 , 1115 (8th Cir. 2008) (quoting Nicola v. Astrue , 480 F.3d 885 , 886 (8th Cir. 2007) ). The decision of the ALJ "is not outside the 'zone of choice' simply because we might have reached a different conclusion had we been the initial finder of fact.”
3 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.