Terry v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
903 F.2d 1273 · 1990
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Bray v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration (2009), 14702b v. Dar Johnson
25 federal appellate · 9 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 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Pierce v. Underwood · Service v. Dulles · Swenson v. Sullivan · Winans 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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the point where age significantly affects a person's ability to do substantial gainful activity.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Secretary's primary source of reliable job information.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“very little, if any, vocational adjustment [is] required.”
3 later decisions 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.