Allen v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
880 F.2d 1200 · 1989
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Phillips v. Barnhart (2004), Foote v. Chater (1995)
5 federal appellate ·
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 Bonner v. City of Prichard · MaCgregor v. Bowen · Cowart v. Schweiker · Hale v. Bowen · Walker v. Bowen
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'It is only when the claimant can clearly do unlimited types of light work, ... that it is unnecessary to call a vocational expert to establish whether the claimant can perform work which exists in the national economy.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'exclusive reliance on the grids is not appropriate either when the claimant is unable to perform a full range of work at a given residual functional level or when a claimant has a non-exertional impairment that significantly limits basic work skills.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Foote v. Chater“the preferred method of demonstrating that the claimant can perform specific work is through the testimony of a vocational expert.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Foote 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.