Gonzalez v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
914 F.2d 1197 · 1990
Citation profile
73 federal appellate · 22 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 196 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Bradley Lewis v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (2001), Flaten v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1995)
73 federal appellate · 22 district · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Richardson v. Perales · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Califano v. Sanders · Bibby v. United States
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 196 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If you do not request reconsideration of your case within the prescribed time period, you still have the right to file another application at any time.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[did ] not clearly indicate that if no request for reconsideration [was] made, the determination [was] final.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Substantial evidence is 'more than a mere scintilla,' ... but is 'less than a preponderance.'”
3 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.