Smith v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
982 F.2d 308 · 1992
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 17 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably United States v. Honken (1999), Das v. Department of Health & Human Services (1994)
5 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 Wrenn v. Board of Directors · Edgar v. McVey Trucking Co. · Barnson v. United States · Locher v. Sullivan · Bethea v. Levi Strauss & Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“wages and those upon which an individual pays no social security tax are”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“one-sixtieth of the total of his wages and self-employment income (computed without regard to the limitations specified in sections 409(a)(1) and 411(b)(1) of this title) for the five consecutive calendar years after 1950 for which such wages and self-employment income were highest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Prather v. Shalala“[g]enerally, when the same words are used in different section of the law, they will be given the same meaning”
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.