Stein v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
966 F.2d 317 · 1992
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Raines v. Shalala (1995), Conrad v. Barnhart (2006)
12 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 Pierce v. Underwood · Sullivan v. Hudson · Stephens v. Heckler · Burnett v. Bowen · Ferrell v. Pierce
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the level of articulation required is far from precise”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he level of articulation required is far from precise ... The requirement that the AU articulate his consideration of the evidence is deliberately flexible. “It is enough if the AU indicates the path of decision. The administrative tribunal need not spell out every step in the reasoning, if it provides enough of the steps that the' full course may be discerned.””
3 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.