Edwards v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
937 F.2d 580 · 1991
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Lewis v. Callahan (1997), Crawford v. Commissioner of Social Security (2004)
7 federal appellate · 1 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. § 406 (§ 206 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Bonner v. City of Prichard · Central Intelligence Agency v. Holy Spirit Ass'n for the Unification of World Christianity · MaCgregor v. Bowen · Landry 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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“record reveals evidentiary gaps which result in unfairness or 'clear prejudice'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Binion v. Shalala
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.