Matney ex rel. Matney v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
981 F.2d 1016 · 1992
Citation profile
88 federal appellate · 17 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 175 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Thomas v. Barnhart (2002), Tackett v. Apfel (1999)
88 federal appellate · 17 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 Richardson v. Perales · Bowen v. Yuckert · Magallanes v. Bowen · Bolker v. Commissioner · Bunnell 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 175 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trier of fact and not the reviewing court must resolve conflicts in the evidence, and if the evidence can support either outcome, the court may not substitute its judgment for that of the ALJ.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“Id. (quotations omitted). Substantial evidence is”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The ALJ need not accept an opinion of a physician-even a treating physician-if it is conclusory and brief and unsupported by clinical findings.”
4 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.