Onstead v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
962 F.2d 803 · 1992
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Robert J. Lauer v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of Social Security (2001), Johnson v. Chater (1996)
19 federal appellate · 4 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 Benskin v. Bowen · Baker v. Heckler · Whitehouse v. Sullivan · Lanning 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Substantial evidence is that which a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support the Secretary's conclusion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] consulting physician's opinion as to a patient he has seen only once ... does not constitute substantial evidence ..., especially when contradicted by the evaluation of the claimant's treating physician.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Richmond v. Shalala“a treating physician's opinion should be accorded substantial weight.”
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.