Bates v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
894 F.2d 1059 · 1990
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Bunnell v. Sullivan (1991), Gonzalez v. Sullivan (1990)
43 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Arkansas Public Service Commission v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. · Polaski v. Heckler · Beavers v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an ALJ may disregard a claimant's subjective pain testimony unless it is accompanied by evidence of 'a medical condition that could be reasonably ... expected to produce' that pain.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a medical condition that could be reasonably expected to produce”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“An individual’s statement as to pain or other symptoms shall not alone be conclusive evidence of disability as defined in this section; there must be medical signs and findings, established by medically acceptable clinical or laboratory diagnostic techniques, which show the existence of a medical impairment that results from anatomical, physiological, or psychological abnormalities which could reasonably be expected to produce the pain or other symptoms alleged and which, when considered with all evidence required to be furnished under this paragraph (including statements of the individual or his physician as to the intensity and persistence of such pain or other symptoms which may reasonably be accepted as consistent with the medical signs and findings), would lead to a conclusion that the individual is under a disability.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.