Walters v. Flemming’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2009
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 424
Relies on Higginson v. City of Fall River · Gannon v. Contributory Retirement Appeal Board · McCarthy's Case
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If any periodic benefit under a workmen’s compensation law or plan is payable on other than a monthly basis (excluding a benefit payable as a lump sum except to the extent that it is a commutation of, or a substitute for, periodic payments * * * (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“commutation of, or a substitute for, periodic payments”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Black v. Schweiker
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.