Thomas v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
928 F.2d 255 · 1991
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 16 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Woolf v. Shalala (1993), Robinson v. Sullivan (1992)
19 federal appellate · 16 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
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 Polaski v. Heckler · Benskin v. Bowen · Schisler v. Heckler · Booz v. Secretary of Health & Human Services
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As is true in many disability cases, there is no doubt that the claimant is experiencing pain; the real issue is how severe that pain is.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he treating physician rule is premised, at least in part, on the notion that 'the treating physician is usually more familiar with a claimant's medical condition than are other physicians.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[A] treating physician's opinion is normally accorded a higher degree of deference than that of a consulting physician....”
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.