Blanks v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
439 F.2d 1158 · 1971
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 1991
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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)
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Brown · Merrell v. Gardner
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Reviewing courts are not required ... to stand aside and give rubber-stamp approval to administrative decisions which frustrate the congressional policy underlying a statute. NLRB v. Brown, 380 U.S. 278, 291 [ 85 S.Ct. 980, 988 , 13 L.Ed.2d 839 ] (1965). Rather, our function is to review the entire body of evidence, including that which is opposed to the Secretary’s view. Universal Camera Corp. v. NLRB, 340 U.S. 474, 488 [ 71 S.Ct. 456, 464 , 95 L.Ed. 456 ] (1951). This is particularly true in cases such as this one, where the question before the Secretary is not one requiring the application of administrative expertise. In such cases we are called upon to examine the record closely. Merrell v. Gardner, 397 F.2d 65 [, 67] (5th Cir. 1968) ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is unreasonable to ride roughshod over the memories of the brothers and sisters as to age hierarchy of the children in the family. Their statements may not lead to exact ages, but they certainly should be persuasive as to the order of birth. The Secretary would rewrite the family tree to makes [sic] James younger than his brother Jodie, contrary to the recollection of all family members.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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