McGregor v. Astrue’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Thomas v. Arn · Bowen v. Yuckert · Mattox v. United States · Heckler v. Campbell
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘Social functioning’ refers to the claimant's ‘capacity to interact independently, appropriately, effectively, and on a sustained basis with other individuals’ and includes ‘the ability to get along with others, such as family members, friends, neighbors,- grocery clerks, landlords, or bus drivers.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lewis v. Colvin
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.