Ryan v. Shea’s Empirical Analysis
525 F.2d 268 · 1975
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably Ellis v. Blum (1981), Humana of South Carolina, Inc. v. Califano (1978)
37 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1361 · 42 U.S.C. § 1382C (§ 1614 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1383 (§ 1631 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Goldberg v. Kelly · Fuentes v. Shevin · Weinberger v. Salfi · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a part of the definition <)f eligibility, Congress included a “grandfather” clause whereby persons receiving disability benefits from a state program as of December 1973 would be conclusively presumed to meet federal standards. We would note parenthetically that the federal program was in one sense, at least, a continuation of the old federal-state program. Id. at 270 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Finnegan v. Matthews
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.