Cotton v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
2 F.3d 692 · 1993
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Perez v. Chater (1996), Ingram v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration (2007)
25 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on 17208a Casey v. Secretary of Health and Human Services · Eads v. Secretary Department Health Human Services · Mitchell v. Schweiker · Nelson v. Sullivan · Wyatt v. Secretary of Health & Human Services
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f new and material evidence is submitted, the Appeals Council shall consider the additional evidence only where it relates to the period on or before the date of the administrative law judge hearing decision. The Appeals Council shall evaluate the entire record including the new and material evidence submitted if it relates to the period on or before the date of the administrative law judge hearing decision.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the administrative process continues when a claimant seeks review of an ALJ decision ... and new evidence first submitted to the Appeals Council is part of the administrative record that goes to the district court for review.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Falge v. Apfel · O'Dell v. Shalala“that the district court improperly considered Cotton's new evidence because the claimant failed to demonstrate good cause justifying a remand for administrative consideration of the new evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.