Hargis v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
945 F.2d 1482 · 1991
Citation profile
130 federal appellate · 88 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 339 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Thompson v. Sullivan (1993), Kepler v. Chater (1995)
130 federal appellate · 88 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 Bowen v. Yuckert · Williams v. Bowen · Luna v. Bowen · Huston v. Bowen
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 339 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Substantial evidence is such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage“This court reviews the Secretary's decision to determine only whether [the] findings are supported by substantial evidence and whether the Secretary applied correct legal standards when making [the] decision.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[T]estimony elicited by hypothetical questions that do not relate with precision all of a claimant's impairments cannot constitute substantial evidence to support the Secretary's decision.'”
21 later decisions 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.