Shelltrack v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
938 F.2d 894 · 1991
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Chamberlain v. Shalala (1995), Lorenzen v. Chater (1995)
6 federal appellate ·
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 Brand v. Secretary of Department of Health Education and Welfare · O'Leary v. Schweiker · Adams v. Weinberger · Ekeland v. Bowen · Metcalf 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“his disability is encompassed by the Social Security Act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]lcoholism alone, or in combination with other impairments, can be disabl-ing_ [I]n order to establish a disability predicated on alcoholism, the claimant must show: (1) that he has lost self-control to the point of being ‘impotent to seek and use means of rehabilitation,’ and (2) that his disability is encompassed by the Act. ‘[A] finding of an ability to control alcoholism cannot rest on claimant’s testimony alone.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Alcoholism, alone or in combination with other impairments, can be a disabling condition.”
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.