Emory v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
936 F.2d 1092 · 1991
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably 16558a Hamilton v. Secretary of Health & Human Services of United States (1992), Washington v. Shalala (1994)
37 federal appellate · 6 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 Williams v. Bowen · John VARLEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant-Appellee · Byron v. Heckler · Dixon v. Heckler · Tom 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether [her] findings are supported by substantial evidence in the record and whether [she] applied the correct legal standards.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[f]ailure to apply the correct legal standard or to provide this court with a sufficient basis to determine that appropriate legal principles have been followed is grounds for reversal.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'In reversing the Secretary's determination, it is within our discretion to remand to the Secretary for a further hearing or direct the district court to award benefits.'”
3 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.