Robinson v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
956 F.2d 836 · 1992
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 17 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 186 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Sheila J. Young v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of Social Security (2000), Roe v. Chater (1996)
45 federal appellate · 17 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 Arkansas Public Service Commission v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. · Polaski v. Heckler · Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. Crenshaw · Brown v. Schweitzer · Polaski 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 186 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if it is possible to draw two inconsistent positions from the evidence and one of those positions represents the agency's findings, we must affirm the decision.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“review [claimants]' residual functional capacity and the physical and mental demands of the work [claimant] [has] done in the past.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any impairment or combination of impairments which significantly limits [claimant's] physical or mental ability to do basic work activities....”
3 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.