Loveless v. Colvin’s Empirical Analysis
810 F.3d 502 · 2016
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Indiana Northern District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Schaal v. Apfel · Allen v. Califano · Craft v. Astrue · Rivera v. Schweiker · 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the Social Security Administration defines medical opinions as 'statements from physicians and psychologists or other acceptable medical sources that reflect judgments about the nature and severity' of a claimant's impairments, including the claimant's symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis, physical and mental restrictions, and residual functional capacity.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“one factor among many, and it is not dispositive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Summers v. Berryhill
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.