Dix v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
900 F.2d 135 · 1990
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Washington v. Shalala (1994), Watson v. Barnhart (2002)
14 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1382C (§ 1614 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Polaski v. Heckler · Smith v. Califano · Broadbent v. Harris · Thomas v. Sullivan · Singletary v. Bowen
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not capable of holding a job for a significant period of time”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is often accompanied by periods of inactivity as well as a high rate of recurrence after treatment”
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.