Brown v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
October 1997
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on Califano v. Sanders · McGowen v. Harris · Purter v. Heckler · Jelinek v. Heckler · Cherry v. Heckler
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“within four years of the date of the notice of the initial determination,”
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.