Thomas v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
922 F.2d 132 · 1990
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2012
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Dandridge v. Williams · Weinberger v. Salfi · Minnesota v. Clover Leaf Creamery Co. · Schweiker v. Wilson · Mathews v. De Castro
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.
“There is no fundamental right to the receipt of benefits from the government”
1 later decision 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.