Miller v. Burger’s Empirical Analysis
161 F.2d 992 · 1947
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 1984 · most notably National Organization for Women Washington Dc Chapter v. Social Security Administration of Department of Health and Human Services (1984), Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency (1974)
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 409 (§ 209 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 901 (§ 701 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Social Security Board v. Nierotko · United States v. Lalone · North Whittier Heights Citrus Ass'n v. National Labor Relations Board · Latimer v. United States · Burger v. Social Security Board
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It is not to be doubted that in the final analysis, statutory construction is a legal function, and if the Board (under the facts of this case) can construe the language of the Act, the courts can examine that construction and determine its validity or invalidity.””
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.