Stewart v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
881 F.2d 740 · 1989
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2002 · most notably Bunnell v. Sullivan (1991), Fair v. Bowen (1989)
13 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Gallant v. Heckler · Cotton v. Bowen · Murray v. Heckler · Desrosiers v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Varney v. Secretary of Health & Human Services
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f there are objective medical findings which establish a medical impairment that would normally produce some amount of pain, but the claimant testifies that she suffers more pain than would be expected ("excess pain”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“I am hard-pressed to describe what showing the Secretary must make to refute an excess pain claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Fair v. Bowen · Bunnell v. Sullivan“'convincingly justify his rejection' of the claimant's excess pain testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fair v. Bowen
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.