Smith v. Shalala’s Empirical Analysis
987 F.2d 1371 · 1993
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Wilcutts v. Apfel (1998), Johnson v. Chater (1996)
37 federal appellate · 11 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 · Polaski v. Heckler · Benskin v. Bowen · Baker v. Heckler
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we must consider evidence that detracts from the [Commissioner's] decision as well as evidence that supports it.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““First the [Commissioner] determines whether the claimant is presently engaged in a ‘substantial gainful activity.’ Second the [Commissioner] analyzes whether the claimant has a severe impairment — one that significantly limits the claimant’s physical or mental ability to perform basic work activities. Third, the [Commissioner] determines whether the claimant has an impairment that meets or equals an impairment listed in the regulations; if so, the [Commissioner] finds that the claimant is disabled without considering the claimant’s age, education and work experience. Fourth, the [Commissioner] considers the claimant’s residual functional capacity and the physical and mental demands of the claimant’s past work to determine whether the claimant can still perform the work. If the claimant has the residual capacity to perform that work, the [Commissioner] finds that the claimant is not disabled. Finally, if the [Commissioner] determined that the claimant cannot perform the past work, the [Commissioner] determines whether any substantial gainful activity exists in the national economy which the claimant can perform.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Our review of the denial of benefits is limited to determining whether the decision is supported by substantial evidence on the record as a whole.”
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.