Russell v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
950 F.2d 542 · 1991
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably Browning v. Sullivan (1992), Robinson v. Sullivan (1992)
14 federal appellate · 2 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 Polaski v. Heckler · Benskin v. Bowen · Cruse v. Bowen · Thompson v. Bowen · Hutsell v. Sullivan
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We must affirm if substantial evidence on the record as a whole supports the Secretary's decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Medical Assessment of Ability to Do Work-Related Activities (Mental)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.