Marek v. Flemming’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1989
5 federal appellate · 1 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) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Shelton v. Belknap · Consolidated Underwriters v. Kelly · Heflinger v. Heflinger · Kelly v. Consolidated Underwriters · Jordan v. Missouri & Kansas Telephone Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such orders, however, are in no way controlling in the present proceedings. The Secretary-defendant neither was, nor could he properly have been a party to the Probate Court proceedings. The Secretary had no opportunity in those Arkansas proceedings to contest claimant’s statement that she was wage earner’s lawful widow. Manifestly, the Secretary is not bound by such an ex parte, incidental finding.””
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.