Wilkinson v. Abrams’s Empirical Analysis
627 F.2d 650 · 1980
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 13 Cal. 4th 1017 - American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations v. Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board (1996), International Brotherhood of Boilermakers v. Kelly (1987)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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. § 1337 · 42 U.S.C. § 1302 (§ 1102 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 502 (§ 302 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 503 (§ 303 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Morrissey v. Brewer · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Bell v. Wolfish
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the greatest promptness that is administratively feasible,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... [Unemployment insurance is designed to prevent the destitution [occasioned by unemployment] by immediately providing a cash payment to meet the worker’s nondeferable expenses. In this light, there is at least as urgent a need for the prompt processing of unemployment benefits appeals as for those under the Public Assistance Programs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The reviewing court shall— (2) hold unlawful and set aside agency action, findings, and conclusions found to be— (A) arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law; (C) in excess of statutory jurisdiction, authority, or limitations, or short of statutory right;”
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.