Burns v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
888 F.2d 1218 · 1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2005
4 federal appellate · 2 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 Arkansas Public Service Commission v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. · Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. Crenshaw · Brown v. Schweitzer · Polaski v. Heckler · Parsons 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We must uphold the ... denial of benefits if it is supported by substantial evidence on the record as a whole.”
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.