Sullivan v. Hudson’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
253 federal appellate · 324 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,204 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Commissioner, Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Jean (1990), Shalala v. Schaefer (1993)
253 federal appellate · 324 district · 15 state decisions
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedElmer HUDSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant-Appellee (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Pierce v. Underwood · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Texas State Teachers Ass'n v. Garland Independent School District
Cited together with Pierce v. Underwood · Melkonyan v. Sullivan · Sullivan v. Finkelstein · Commissioner, Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Jean · Richardson v. Perales
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 1,204 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he court may, on motion of the [Commissioner] made for good cause shown before he files his answer, remand the case to the [Commissioner] for further action by the [Commissioner], and it may at any time order additional evidence to be taken before the [Commissioner], but only upon a showing that there is new evidence which is material and that there is good cause for the failure to incorporate such evidence into the record in a prior proceeding....”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the proceedings on remand are an integral part of the 'civil action' for judicial review, and thus attorney's fees for representation on remand are available subject to other limitations.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Except as otherwise specifically provided by statute, a court shall award to a prevailing party other than the United States fees and other expenses ... incurred by that party in any civil action (other than cases sounding in tort), including proceedings for judicial review of agency action, brought by or against the United States in any court having jurisdiction of that action, unless the court finds that the position of the United States was substantially justified or that special circumstances make an award unjust.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.