Thomas v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
876 F.2d 666 · 1989
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 14 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Cline v. Sullivan (1991), Wilcutts v. Apfel (1998)
32 federal appellate · 14 district · 2 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.
Relationships
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · McCoy v. Schweiker · Gold v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · McMillian v. Schweiker
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ability to do light housework with assistance, attend church, or visit with friends on the phone does not qualify as the ability to do substantial gainful activity.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“search for the existence of substantial evidence supporting [the Secretary's] decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“taken together, and in conjunction with how they limit her daily activities, they add up to an inability to do real work.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Eback v. Chater
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.