724 F. Supp. 76 - Brown v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 2018
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 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 406 (§ 206 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Pierce v. Underwood · United States v. Dion · Mabry v. Johnson · Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 96,131 · Torres v. Eastlick
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A position of the Secretary which is contrary to clearly established circuit precedent obviously cannot have a reasonable basis in the law.”
1 later decision 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.