Ewing v. Risher’s Empirical Analysis
176 F.2d 641 · 1949
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 1993 · most notably Bomer v. Ribicoff (1962), Hodgson v. Humphries (1972)
22 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 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)
Relies on The Harrisburg · Midstate Horticultural Co. v. Pennsylvania Railroad · William Danzer & Co. v. Gulf & Ship Island Railroad · Matheny v. Porter · 80 F. Supp. 876 - Adams v. Albany
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The rule is well settled that where a statute creates a right, such as the.one in this case, unknown to the common law and limits the time within which the right must be asserted, the limitation defines and controls the right and the right ceases to exist if not asserted within the time fixed in the statute therefor.””
5 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.