I can easily imagine such an article, because it happens all the damn time. "Using the argument of [1] and [2] it can be shown, with brief step x, it can be sh

I can easily imagine such an article, because it happens all the damn time. "Using the argument of [1] and [2] it can be shown, with brief step x, it can be shown that this theorem holds in xxxx" and then moving onto the conclusions, is exactly the same as "Using the software developed in [3] to solve Eq. 1, we show that our result is statistically significant." If the claim is probable, it will and does get through review.