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Goins v. Colvin’s Empirical Analysis

764 F.3d 677 · 2014

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
July 2023
most recently cited

12 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

Relies on Kelley v. Callahan · Hawkins v. Chater · Rohan v. Chater · Loza v. Apfel · Bjornson v. Astrue

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “accommodated [the plaintiff's] obesity by providing that she could never [be required as part of her work duties to] climb ladders, ropes, or scaffolds, and could only occasionally climb ramps or stairs, balance, kneel, crawl, stoop, and/or crouch.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “... pain ... in legs ... bound to be aggravated by obesity.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “new and potentially decisive medical evidence”
    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.