Leimbach v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
596 F.2d 300 · 1979
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1996 · most notably Schweiker v. Hansen (1981), Goodman v. McDonnell Douglas Corp. (1979)
22 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Federal Crop Ins Corporation v. Merrill · Thorpe v. Housing Authority of Durham · Mourning v. Family Publications Service, Inc. · Utah Power Light Company v. United States No 202 United States
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonably related to the purpose of the enabling legislation,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Social Security Act, supplemented by its regulations, was intended to eliminate or at least reduce to a minimum the possibility of fraud, confusion and laxity in its administration. The vastness of the program makes it essential to adhere to the written application procedure, if there is to be an orderly and controllable system of management for approving claims and paying out insurance benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hansen v. Harris“'[w]hatever form in which the Government functions, anyone entering into an arrangement with the Government takes the risk of having accurately ascertained that he who purports to act for the Government stays within the bounds of his authority.'”
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.