DeLorme v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
924 F.2d 841 · 1991
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 15 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Carl Edlund v. Larry G. Massanari, Acting Commissioner of Social Security (2001), Bray v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration (2009)
52 federal appellate · 15 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
Relies on Heckler v. Campbell · Magallanes v. Bowen · Embrey v. Bowen · Gallant v. Heckler · Hammock 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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“expert's testimony has no evidentiary value to support a finding that the claimant can perform jobs in the national economy.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“In the event that the medical evidence is not definite concerning the onset date [of a disability] and medical inferences need to be made, SSR 83-20 requires the [ALJ] to call upon the services of a medical advisor and to obtain all evidence which is available to make the determination.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If a claimant shows that he or she cannot return to his or her previous job, the burden of proof shifts to the Secretary to show that the claimant can do other kinds of work. 3 Without other reliable evidence of a claimant's ability to perform specific jobs, the Secretary must use a vocational expert to meet that burden.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.