Harper v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
887 F.2d 92 · 1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Vaughan v. Shalala (1995), McKnight v. Sullivan (1990)
2 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Rodriguez v. Bowen · Lovelace v. Bowen · Harrell v. Bowen · Owens v. Heckler
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“seek benefits as a means of affording care that might conceivably prevent a disability.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.