Bowen v. City of New York’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
487 federal appellate · 214 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,287 later decisions (54 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs (1991), Bowen v. Yuckert (1987)
487 federal appellate · 214 district · 52 state decisions — followed in 13 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
reviewedCity of New York v. Heckler (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Weinberger v. Salfi · United States v. Kubrick · McKart v. United States · American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah
Cited together with Mathews v. Eldridge · Weinberger v. Salfi · Heckler v. Ringer · Richardson v. Perales · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board
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 2,287 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“retains a residual functional capacity to perform alternative substantial gainful work which exists in the national economy”
219 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any individual, after any final decision of the [Secretary] made after a hearing to which he was a party ... may obtain a review of such decision by a civil action [in a district court of the United States] commenced within sixty days after the mailing to him of notice of such decision or within such further time as the [Secretary] may allow.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The court shall have power to enter, upon the pleadings and transcript of the record, a judgment affirming, modifying, or reversing the decision of the Secretary, with or without remanding the cause for a rehearing.”
4 later decisions 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.