Anthony v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
954 F.2d 289 · 1992
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Leggett v. Chater (1995), Loza v. Apfel (2000)
5 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 Richardson v. Perales · Bowen v. Yuckert · Mcdonald v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Stone v. Heckler · Fraga 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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. An individual who is working and engaging in substantial gainful activity will not be found disabled regardless of medical findings. 2. An individual who does not have a “severe impairment” will not be found to be disabled. 3. An individual who “meets or equals a listed impairment in Appendix 1” of the regulations will be considered disabled without consideration of vocational factors. 4. If an individual is capable of performing the work he has done in the past, a finding of “not disabled” must be made. 5. If an individual’s impairment precludes him from performing his past work, other factors including age, education, past work experience, and residual functional capacity must be considered to determine if work can be performed.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the Secretary’s findings are supported by substantial evidence, they are conclusive and must be affirmed. Substantial evidence is that which is relevant and sufficient for a reasonable mind to accept as adequate to support a conclusion; it must be more than a scintilla, but it need not be a preponderance. This Court may not reweigh the evidence or try the issues de novo. Rather, conflicts in the evidence are for the Secretary to resolve.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[A]n impairment can be considered as not severe only if it is a slight abnormality [having] such minimal effect on the individual that it would not be expected to interfere with the individual's ability to work, irrespective of age, education or work experience.'”
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.