Simon v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
593 F.2d 121 · 1979
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1990 · most notably Schweiker v. Hansen (1981), United States v. Ven-Fuel, Inc. (1985)
22 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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
Relies on United States Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Hibi · United States v. Georgia-Pacific Co. · United States v. Lazy FC Ranch · Santiago v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · United States v. Ruby Co.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the government's wrongful conduct threatened to work a serious injustice and ... the public's interest would not be unduly damaged by the imposition of estoppel.”
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.