Buckner v. Astrue’s Empirical Analysis
646 F.3d 549 · 2011
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Polaski v. Heckler · Goff v. Barnhart · Robinson v. Sullivan · Sheila J. Young v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of Social Security · Smith v. Heckler
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.
“an ALJ's failure to comment upon lay witness testimony is harmless where 'the same evidence that the ALJ referred to in discrediting [the claimant's] claims also discredits [the lay witness's] claims.'”
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.