Herr v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
912 F.2d 178 · 1990
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Ehrhart v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1992), Powers v. Apfel (2000)
17 federal appellate ·
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) · 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Richardson v. Perales · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Walker v. Bowen · Garfield v. Schweiker · Steward 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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'more than a mere scintilla. It means such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An ALJ’s credibility determinations will be affirmed on appeal unless the appellant can demonstrate that they are “patently wrong.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he existence of an evidentiary dispute, in and of itself, does not present a ground for reversing the ALJ's decision to credit one particular version of the events over another.”
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.