Williams v. Ribicoff’s Empirical Analysis
323 F.2d 231 · 1963
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 1987
8 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on United States v. Silk · National Labor Relations Board v. Florida Steel Corp. · Hinojos v. Railroad Retirement Board · Scofield v. Davant
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When an administrative officer is sitting in the dual role as a judge of the law and trier of facts, and when he, as judge, gives himself, as fact-finder, an incorrect instruction as to the law governing the decision he must make, error is committed just as there is error if a judge incorrectly charges a jury. We must assume that the examiner applied the standard as he stated it; and if he did he erred, and on a question of law, the decision therefore [if not otherwise clearly and independently supported by substantial evidence] cannot stand.”
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.