Young v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
972 F.2d 830 · 1992
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Wilfong v. United States (1993), Labrie v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1992)
8 federal appellate ·
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 · Melkonyan v. Sullivan · Sullivan v. Finkelstein · Whitney v. Schweiker · Damato v. Sullivan
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court may, on motion of the Commissioner of Social Security made for good cause shown before the Commissioner files the Commissioner’s answer, remand the case to the Commissioner of Social Security for further action by the Commissioner of Social Security, and it may at any time order additional evidence to be taken before the Commissioner of Social Security, but only upon a showing that there is new evidence which is material and that there is good cause for the failure to incorporate such evidence into the record in a prior proceeding[.] •”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under sentence four, a district court may remand in conjunction with a judgment affirming, modifying, or reversing the Commissioner’s decision. Under sentence six, the district court may remand in light of additional evidence without making any substantive ruling as to the correctness of the Secretary’s decision, but only if the claimant shows good cause for failing to present the evidence earlier.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The government's position can be justified even though it is not correct and it can be substantially justified 'if a reasonable person could think it correct, that is, if it has a reasonable basis in law or fact.'”
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.