Mathus v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 406 (§ 206 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Berman v. Schweiker · Continental Web Press, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board · Bohn v. Heckler · Soper v. Heckler · 613 F. Supp. 12 - Haney 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it was an amendment to the Social Security Act, and not the filing of the suit, which led to the reinstatement of plaintiff's benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Truax v. Bowen
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.