Bunnell v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
912 F.2d 1149 · 1990
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably 15161b v. Dar a Smolen, Bunnell v. Sullivan (1991)
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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 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 Richardson v. Perales · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Magallanes v. Bowen · Fair v. Bowen · Gallant 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not considered an acceptable medical source. Although a claimant is free to offer chiropractic evidence to help the Secretary understand his inability to work, there is no requirement that the Secretary accept or specifically refute such evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he effects of all symptoms, including severe and prolonged pain, must be evaluated on the basis of a medically determinable impairment which can be shown to be the cause of the symptom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Bunnell v. Sullivan“Exostoses are bony growths projecting outward from the surface of a bone, characteristically capped by cartilage ... result[ing] in the development of valgus, i.e., bent outward, ankles.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.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.