Vargas v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
898 F.2d 293 · 1990
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Pratts v. Chater (1996), Rivera v. Sullivan (1991)
3 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
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Heckler v. Campbell · Marcus v. Califano · Bastien v. Califano · Landess v. Weinberger
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there was an infinitesimal likelihood that employment of any kind would be available”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[l]ight work involves lifting no more than 20 pounds at a time with frequent lifting or carrying of objects weighing up to 10 pounds. Even though the weight lifted may be very little, a job is in this category when it requires a good deal of walking or standing, or when it involves sitting most of the time with some pushing and pulling of arm or leg controls. To be considered capable of performing a full or wide range of light work, you must have the ability to do substantially all of these activities. If someone can do light work, we determine that he or she can also do sedentary work, unless there are additional limiting factors such as loss of fine dexterity or inability to sit for long periods of time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“thus elevating the opinion of the medical adviser, who never had examined [Minsky], over that of .. her treating physician[s], the ALJ. violated a general rule adopted in all, or virtually all, of the circuits. Dr. [Plotz’s] job as a medical adviser was to explain complex medical problems in terms understandable to lay examiners. The general rule is that the written reports of medical advisors who have not personally examined the claimant deserve little weight in the overall evaluation of disability. The advisers’ assessment of what other doctors find is hardly a basis for competent evaluation without a personal examination of the claimant, (citing cases).”
1 later decision 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.