Nelson v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
966 F.2d 363 · 1992
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Perez v. Chater (1996), 14129b Castellano v. Secretary of Health and Human Services (1994)
38 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
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 · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Polaski v. Heckler · Browning v. Sullivan · Benskin 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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he newly submitted evidence is to become part of what we will loosely describe here as the `administrative record,' even though the evidence was not originally included in the ALJ's record.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n administrative decision is not subject to reversal merely because substantial evidence would have supported an opposite decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is the statutory duty of the ALJ, in the first instance, to assess the credibility of the claimant and other witnesses.”
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.