Schweiker v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
711 federal appellate · 203 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,808 later decisions (38 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Heckler v. Community Health Services of Crawford County, Inc. (1984), Office of Personnel Management v. Richmond (1990)
711 federal appellate · 203 district · 65 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedHansen v. Harris (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Federal Crop Ins Corporation v. Merrill · Morton v. Ruiz · United States v. Caceres · United States Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Hibi
Cited together with Federal Crop Ins Corporation v. Merrill · Heckler v. Community Health Services of Crawford County, Inc. · United States Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Hibi · Office of Personnel Management v. Richmond · Montana v. Kennedy
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 1,808 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“declined to decide whether even 'affirmative misconduct' would estop the Government from denying [a benefit],”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the duty of all courts to observe the conditions defined by Congress for charging the public treasury.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]here is no doubt that [the agency employee] failed to follow the Claims Manual. ... But the Claims Manual is not a regulation. It has no legal force, and it does not bind the [agency].”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.