Brown v. Barnhart

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• accounting “for plaintiffs counsel bearing the risk that he would not win an award for his client and thus would not be paid at all”
• considering in a § 406(b) analysis that counsel had handled 900 or more Social Security cases in his career and achieved a large measure of success for his client
• crediting plaintiffs counsel’s experience in handling over 900 social security cases
• approving contingency fee representing 17.4% of plaintiffs benefit award

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Yarnevic v. Apfel
  N.D. Georgia· 2005-02-18· cited 55×
• McPeak v. Barnhart
  S.D. West Virginia· 2005-07-27· cited 46×
• Ellick v. Barnhart
  C.D. California· 2006-08-17· cited 21×
• Wilson v. Astrue
  D. Delaware· 2008-12-09· cited 20×
• Henshaw v. Barnhart
  W.D. Virginia· 2004-05-04· cited 3×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gisbrecht v. Barnhart
  Supreme Court· 2002-05-28· cited 4,551×
• Mckittrick v. Gardner
  Fourth Circuit· 1967-05-30· cited 73×
• Kathleen L. Morris v. Social Security Administration
  Fourth Circuit· 1982-09-17· cited 45×
• Craig v. Secretary, Department of Health & Human Services
  Fourth Circuit· 1989-01-03· cited 35×
• Ethelle B. Robinson v. John W. Gardner, Secretary, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, (Two Cases)
  Fourth Circuit· 1967-03-07· cited 32×
• Hein v. Monsanto Co
  Fourth Circuit· 1987-08-27· cited 30×
• Ray v. Gardner
  Fourth Circuit· 1967-12-08· cited 18×
• Britton v. Gardner
  W.D. Virginia· 1967-06-14· cited 6×
• Thompson v. Barnhart
  W.D. Virginia· 2003-01-15· cited 5×