Stephen R. Snead v. Jo Anne B. Barnhart

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing “[w]ell-settled precedent confirms that the ALJ bears the responsibility to develop the record fairly and fully, independent of the claimant’s burden to press his case”
• reasoning that the ALJ had an obligation to further develop the medical record because the disputed evidence may have undermined the Commissioner’s burden “at step five of the analysis.”
• recognizing the ALJ’s duty to develop the record in a social security disability case
• recognizing the ALJ’s duty develop the record in a social security disability case
• reversing because the ALJ left unexplored the dispositive issue of whether cardiomyopathy may affect RFC
• reversing where failure to elicit additional evidence might have altered the outcome

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).