Bruce v. Astrue’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
10 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on 15161b v. Dar a Smolen · Dodrill v. Shalala · Stout v. Commissioner, Social Security Administration · Kim Van Nguyen v. Shirley S. Chater, Commissioner of the Social Security Administration · Greger 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nor under our law could the ALJ discredit her lay testimony as not supported by the medical evidence in the record.”
1 later decision 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.