Smith v. Shalala’s Empirical Analysis
5 F.3d 235 · 1993
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably United States v. Wilson (1995), Swanner v. Anchorage Equal Rights Commission (1994)
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
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. § 1382C (§ 1614 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Dandridge v. Williams · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Weinberger v. Salfi · Moore v. City of East Cleveland · Flemming v. Nestor
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rationally related to the legitimate goals set forth by Congress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Milner v. Apfel“the most demanding level of judicial review.”
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.