Higbee v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
975 F.2d 558 · 1992
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Silva Tonapetyan v. William A. Halter, Commissioner of Social Security Administration (2001), Widmark v. Barnhart (2006)
11 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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Heckler v. Campbell · Martinez v. Heckler · DeLorme v. Sullivan · Cox v. Califano
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'it is incumbent upon the ALJ to scrupulously and conscientiously probe into, inquire of, and explore for all the relevant facts.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[F]ailure to maintain a fixed residence [within the United States] is not grounds for the denial of benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.