Locher v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
968 F.2d 725 · 1992
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 13 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Woolf v. Shalala (1993), Smith v. Shalala (1993)
4 federal appellate · 13 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 Polaski v. Heckler · McCoy v. Schweiker · Baker v. Heckler · Tucker 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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Shalala · Woolf v. Shalala“of such severity that [the claimant] is not only unable to do his previous work but cannot, considering his age, education, and work experience, engage in any other kind of substantial gainful work which exists in the national economy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Shalala · Woolf v. Shalala“merely because substantial evidence would have supported an opposite decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Shalala · Woolf v. Shalala
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.