Smith v. Babcock’s Empirical Analysis
19 F.3d 257 · 1994
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2016
7 federal appellate · 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. § 601 (§ 401 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 602 (§ 402 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United States v. American Trucking Associations · Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Griffin v. Oceanic Contractors, Inc.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The interpretation put on the statute by the agency charged with administering it is entitled to deference, but the courts are the final authorities on issues of statutory construction. They must reject administrative constructions of the statute, whether reached by adjudication or by rulemak-ing, that are inconsistent with the statutory mandate or that frustrate the policy that Congress sought to implement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Flores v. Rios“clearly contradict[ ] the will of the legislature”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.