Whiting v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2000
2 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 5 U.S.C. § 504 (Equal Access to Justice Act)
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Bowen v. Yuckert · Maher v. Gagne · Hewitt v. Helms · Larry Nadeau v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ourts [are] compelled to go back to the record as it existed prior to remand to decide the issue of 'substantial justification.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bowey v. West
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.