Walker v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis
627 F.2d 541 · 1980
Citation profile
211 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 277 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Taxpayers Watchdog, Inc. v. Stanley (1987), Williams v. Department of Army (1983)
211 federal appellate · 9 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 Califano v. Sanders · Owen v. City of Independence · Gooding v. United States · Pickus v. United States Board of Parole
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 277 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) party who seeks summary disposition of an appeal must demonstrate that the merits of his claim are so clear as to justify expedited action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Moreover, no special deference is paid to the decision of the District Court. Instead, this Court is to review the [administrative] record and determine anew if the agency committed procedural or substantive error, or if the agency action was arbitrary or capricious.” [Footnote omitted) (citation omitted).]”
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.