Cornelius v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
936 F.2d 1143 · 1991
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Charles Doughty v. Kenneth S. Apfel (2001), Ingram v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration (2007)
6 federal appellate · 4 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. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 410 (§ 210 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 413 (§ 213 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 414 (§ 214 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 601 (§ 401 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Dandridge v. Williams · Weinberger v. Salfi · Atlas Roofing Co. v. Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission · Richardson v. Belcher · Holmes v. United States
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“relevant evidence as a reasonable person would accept as adequate to support a conclusion”
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.