Brown v. Colvin’s Empirical Analysis
845 F.3d 247 · 2016
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2024
8 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Clifford v. Apfel · Herron v. Shalala · Zurawski v. Halter · Craft v. Astrue · Briscoe ex rel. Taylor v. Barnhart
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is one thing to have a bad knee; it is another thing to have a bad knee supporting a body mass index in excess of 40.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“logical bridge from evidence to conclusion.”
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.