Keyes v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
894 F.2d 1053 · 1990
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Buchman v. Board of Education (1995), Corrao v. Shalala (1994)
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
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. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Taylor v. Heckler · Winans v. Bowen · Jozefowicz 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]ork activity is gainful if it is the kind of work usually done for pay or profit, whether or not a profit is realized.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“rebut a presumption based on earnings with evidence of his inability to be self-employed or to perform the job well, without special assistance, or for only brief periods of time.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The concept of substantial gainful activity involves the amount of compensation and the substantiality and gainfulness of the activity itself.”
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.