Sims v. Apfel’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
231 federal appellate · 281 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,377 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Woodford v. Ngo (2006), Lin Zhong v. United States Department of Justice (2006)
231 federal appellate · 281 district · 11 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1881 · 42 U.S.C. § 401 (§ 201 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 47 U.S.C. § 405 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Richardson v. Perales · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Weinberger v. Salfi
Cited together with Richardson v. Perales · Bowen v. Yuckert · United States v. L. A. Tucker Truck Lines, Inc. · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board
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 1,377 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he desirability of a court imposing a requirement of issue exhaustion depends on the degree to which the analogy to normal adversarial litigation applies in a particular administrative proceeding.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“arguments both for and against granting benefits.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]laimants who exhaust administrative remedies need not also exhaust issues in a request for review by the Appeals Council in order to preserve judicial review of those issues.”
14 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.