15161b v. Dar a Smolen’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
100 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 576 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably 16105b v. Dar Reddick, 15798b v. Dar Light
100 district ·
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 Richardson v. Perales · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Bowen v. Yuckert · Raphan v. United States · Soto v. United States
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 576 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the ALJ has failed to provide legally sufficient reasons for rejecting such evidence, (2) there are no outstanding issues that must be resolved before a determination of disability can be made, and (3) it is clear from the record that the ALJ would be required to find the claimant disabled were such evidence credited.”
56 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kaduchak v. Colvin · Hase v. Colvin“relevant evidence which, considering the record as a whole, a reasonable person might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Commissioner's decision ... is [not] supported by substantial evidence.”
2 later decisions 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.