Schweiker v. Chilicky’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
632 federal appellate · 296 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,761 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida (1996), Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer (1994)
632 federal appellate · 296 district · 55 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
reviewedChilicky v. Schweiker (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mathews v. Eldridge · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Richardson v. Perales · Daniels v. Williams
Cited together with Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Bush v. Lucas · Carlson v. Green · Davis v. Passman · Chappell v. Wallace
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 1,761 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the design of a Government program suggests that Congress has provided what it considers adequate remedial mechanisms for constitutional violations that may occur in the course of its administration, we have not created additional Bivens remedies.”
68 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“exactly as in Bush, Congress has failed to provide for 'complete relief': respondents have not been given a remedy in damages for emotional distress or for other hardships suffered because of delays in their receipt of Social Security benefits.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[s]o long as Congress' failure to provide money damages, or other significant relief, has not been inadvertent, courts should defer to its judgment, because 'Congress is the body charged with making the inevitable compromises required in the design of a massive and complex ... program'”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.