Key v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
925 F.2d 1056 · 1991
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Black v. Lane (1994), Young v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1992)
31 federal appellate · 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. § 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 · Montana v. United States · White v. Murtha · Heckler v. Day · Walker 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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The gist of the [law of the case] doctrine is that once an appellate court either expressly or by necessary implication decides an issue, the decision will be binding upon all subsequent proceedings in the same case.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“the Secretary to make a finding as to the physical and mental demands of the assembler job in relation to [the claimant's] present capabilities”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the (Commissioner) was not free to disregard the narrow remand directions of the district court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.