Thompson v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
987 F.2d 1482 · 1993
Citation profile
88 federal appellate · 162 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 358 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Clifford v. Apfel (2000), Kepler v. Chater (1995)
88 federal appellate · 162 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 · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Heckler v. Campbell · Williams v. Bowen · Casias v. Secretary of Health & Human Services
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 358 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the levels of medication and their effectiveness, the extensiveness of the attempts (medical or nonmedical) to obtain relief, the frequency of medical contacts, the nature of daily activities, subjective measures of credibility that are peculiarly within the judgment of the ALJ, the motivation of and relationship between the claimant and other witnesses, and the consistency or compatibility of non-medical testimony and objective medical evidence.””
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We must consider (1) whether Claimant established a pain-producing impairment by objective medical evidence; (2) if so, whether there is a ‘loose nexus’ between the proven impairment and the Claimant’s subjective allegations of pain; and (3) if so, whether considering all the evidence, both objective and subjective, Claimant’s pain is in fact disabling.””
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Astrue · Godfrey v. Apfel“such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
11 later decisions 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.