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Patricia Hart v. Larry G. Massanari, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Administration

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Good law
Court
Ninth Circuit
Citation
266 F.3d 1155
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
152 of 152
Citing cases (total)
409
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Patricia Hart v. Larry G. Massanari remains good law: all 152 flagged citations have been read, and none adversely treated the decision. The reviewed courts repeatedly applied Hart's rule that binding circuit authority must be followed unless a competent higher or en banc court overrules it.
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Nearby adverse language instead concerned other precedents, party requests to disregard circuit law, or words quoted from Hart's own description of stare decisis. A withdrawn panel opinion cited Hart only for that positive proposition, and its withdrawal therefore supplies no adverse treatment. Separate citing opinions reporting the same decision were each read.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

409 later cases cite Patricia Hart v. Larry G. Massanari, Acting Commissioner of Social Security Administration; 152 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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