Villano v. Astrue’s Empirical Analysis
556 F.3d 558 · 2009
Citation profile
22 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Terry v. Astrue (2009), Parker v. Astrue (2010)
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. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Clifford v. Apfel · Zurawski v. Halter · Steele v. Barnhart · Craft v. Astrue · Skarbek 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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he statements concerning the intensity, persistence and limiting effects of the claimant’s symptoms are not credible to the extent they are inconsistent with finding that the claimant does not [functionally equal the listings].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... the ALJ must consider all of the relevant evidence in the record, 'even [limitations] that are not severe, and may not dismiss a line of evidence contrary to the ruling.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ALJ may not discredit a claimant's testimony about her pain and limitations solely because there is no objective medical evidence supporting it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Akin v. Berryhill
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.