Hunter v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
993 F.2d 31 · 1992
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Craig v. Chater (1996), Patricia A. Mastro v. Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of Social Security, No (2001)
20 federal appellate · 3 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 · Laws v. Celebrezze · Hays v. Sullivan · Coffman v. Bowen · Foster v. Heckler
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'consists of more than a mere scintilla of evidence but may be somewhat less than a preponderance.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the treating physician rule generally requires a court to accord greater weight to the testimony of a treating physician, the rule does not require that the testimony be given controlling weight.”
2 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.