Sullivan v. Everhart’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
163 federal appellate · 70 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 443 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White (2006), United States v. Mead Corp. (2001)
163 federal appellate · 70 district · 22 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
reviewedEverhart v. Bowen (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Mathews v. Eldridge · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Califano v. Yamasaki · Mart Corporation v. Cartier Inc 47th Street Photo Inc
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 443 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, always, is the question whether Congress has directly spoken to the precise question at issue. If the intent of Congress is clear, that is the end of the matter; for the court, as well as the agency, must give effect to the unambiguously expressed intent of Congress, (fn omitted). Rather, if the statute is silent or ambiguous with respect to the specific issue, the question for the court is whether the agency’s answer is based on a permissible construction of the statute, (fn omitted).”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“rational and consistent with the statute.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the statute is silent or ambiguous with respect to the specific issue, the question for the court is whether the agency's answer is based on a permissible construction of the statute.”
12 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.