Smith v. Chater’s Empirical Analysis
99 F.3d 635 · 1996
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Hancock v. Astrue (2012), Harman Mining Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (2012)
7 federal appellate · 4 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 · Califano v. Sanders · United States v. Carlo Bianchi & Co. · Laws v. Celebrezze
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We must sustain the ALJ's decision, even if we disagree with it, provided the determination is supported by substantial evidence and thus, would be enough to justify a refusal to direct a verdict in a jury trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he duty to resolve conflicts in the evidence rests with the [agency], not with a reviewing court.”
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.