Matlock v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
908 F.2d 492 · 1990
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably Smith v. Berryhill (2019), Evans v. Chater (1997)
14 federal appellate · 2 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. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Califano v. Sanders · Weinberger v. Salfi · Wrenn v. Gould · Bloodsworth v. Heckler · Dietsch v. Schweiker
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any individual, after any final decision of the Secretary made after a hearing ... may obtain a review of such decision by a civil action commenced within sixty days after the mailing to him of notice of such decision or within such further time as the Secretary may allow ...””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The regulations define reviewable 'final decisions' as decisions by the Appeals Council either reviewing or denying review of an ALJ decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“final decision of the Secretary made after a hearing to which [the individual] was a party.”
2 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.