Shelton v. Chater’s Empirical Analysis
87 F.3d 992 · 1996
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2012
4 federal appellate · 6 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 Polaski v. Heckler · Cline v. Sullivan · Naber v. Shalala · Mapes v. Chater · Oberst v. Shalala
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.
“'Substantial evidence is less than a preponderance, but enough so that a reasonable mind might find it adequate to support the 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.