Thompson v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
878 F.2d 1108 · 1989
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2014
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Mullis v. Bowen · Highfill v. Bowen · Burkhalter v. Schweiker · Milton 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“she had to leave to go back to bed because her chest hurt.”
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.