642 F. Supp. 883 - Pratt v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 2011
3 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Bowen v. City of New York · City of New York v. Heckler · Schisler v. Heckler · Lopez v. Heckler
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiff[s] ... [do] not request an adjudication of individual class members’ entitlement to benefits. Rather [they] seek[ ] only a determination of the validity of certain administrative regulations and policies which themselves determine eligibility when applied to specific cases.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The claims for benefits were collateral to the relief sought, i.e., the vitiation of an unlawful policy, and the claimants likely to be irreparably harmed if the exhaustion requirement were insisted upon. Given the system-wide application of the invalid policy of which the plaintiffs were complaining, exhaustion would have been a superfluous formality ... The instant case is ... very similar to Bowen v. City of New York, and the formality of exhaustion can as well be dispensed with here. The claims for benefits of the several class members are collateral to— indeed, had to be preceded by — the only relief sought for the class as a whole, viz., the judgment declaring the qualifying regulations invalid and an injunction against their enforcement____”
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.