McKee v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
903 F.2d 1436 · 1990
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2016
13 federal appellate · 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 5 U.S.C. § 5565 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on Udall v. Tallman · Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital · Walker v. Bowen · McRoberts v. Bowen · Cain 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has made a written interpretation of the regulation or has maintained a longstanding policy on the subject.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Other evidence of death. If you cannot obtain the preferred evidence of a person's death, you will be asked to explain why and to give us other convincing evidence such as: the signed statements of two or more people with personal knowledge of the death, giving the place, date, and cause of death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]vidence of a litigating position is insufficient to establish an agency's interpretation.”
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.