Rice v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
912 F.2d 1076 · 1990
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Magallanes v. Bowen · Sprague v. Bowen · Chrupcala v. Heckler · Bates v. Sullivan · Young v. Heckler
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an ALJ may disregard a claimant's subjective pain testimony unless it is accompanied by evidence of 'a medical condition that could be reasonably ... expected to produce' that pain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Juarez v. Sullivan“thoroughly evaluated by a number of physicians for different possible maladies ... no serious pathology has been found to explain his many complaints....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Juarez v. Sullivan“[m]ost patients are not totally disabled with this diagnosis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Bunnell v. Sullivan
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.