Richter v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2017
2 federal appellate ·
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. § 401 (§ 201 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 602 (§ 402 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 603 (§ 403 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Edelman v. Jordan · Steffel v. Thompson · Quern v. Jordan · Public Serv. Comm'n of Utah v. Wycoff Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no state shall be considered to have made any ... underpayment of aid ... by reason of its compliance ... with the provisions of any amendment....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grimesy v. Huff
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.