Wilder v. Chater’s Empirical Analysis
64 F.3d 335 · 1995
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Rohan v. Chater (1996), Briscoe ex rel. Taylor v. Barnhart (2005)
14 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
Relies on Thompson v. Sullivan · Rivera v. Sullivan · Ehrhart v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Stark v. Weinberger · Scivally v. Sullivan
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Severe depression is not the blues. It is a mental illness; and health professionals, in particular psychiatrists, not lawyers or judges, are the experts on it.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is true that depression is eminently treatable nowadays, by a variety of antidepressant drugs- of which the best known is Prozac, see, e.g., Gary D. Tollefson, “Recognition and Treatment of Major Depression,” Am. Family Practice, Nov. 1990 Supp., p. 59, and that a disabled person cannot obtain social security disability benefits if he or she refuses to follow a prescribed course of treatment that would eliminate the disability. Ehrhart v. Secretary of Health & Human Services, 969 F.2d 534, 538 (7th Cir.1992). But so far as the record discloses, Wilder has never been prescribed a course of treatment for her depression. Nor has the Social Security Administration ever suggested that her condition might be treatable. In these circumstances, the possibility of treatment that would enable her to work is not a defense to the claim of benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.