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Henderson v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis

930 F.2d 19 · 1991

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
May 2016
most recently cited

8 federal appellate · 1 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Browning v. Sullivan (1992), Singh v. Apfel (2000)

8 federal appellate · 1 district ·

200199120002010decided

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 Polaski v. Heckler · Hancock v. Secretary of Department of Health Education and Welfare · Lanning v. Heckler · Hudson 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “We have consistently discounted the opinions of non-treating physicians who have seen the patient only once, at the request of the Social Security Administration. There is no reason to treat differently the opinion of a non-treating physician who has seen the patient only once, at the request of the patient or her lawyer.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[T]he report of a consulting physician who examined the claimant only once does not constitute 'substantial evidence' upon the record as a whole, especially when contradicted by the claimant's treating physician.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “standard. See district court order, slip op. at 8-9 (holding substantial evidence on the record as a whole supports ALJ's decision that plaintiff's physical and mental conditions had no more than”
    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.