Hawwat v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2012
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 Gold v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Cowart v. Schweiker · Thompson v. Schweiker · Smith v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Cannon v. Harris
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an explanation of the manner in which an attorney can aid in the proceedings, the possibility of free counsel or a contingency arrangement, and the limitation on attorneys’ fees to twenty-five percent of past-due benefits plus required court approval of the fees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he information regarding the cost of any attorney is particularly relevant in disability cases where shortage of funds is likely to be an issue for the claimants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. Sullivan“if given sufficient information to enable him to intelligently decide whether to retain counsel or proceed pro se.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. Sullivan
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.