Griffith v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2013
4 federal appellate · 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1361 · 42 U.S.C. § 1395F (§ 1814 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on Bell v. Hood · Sosna v. Iowa · Bowen v. Michigan Academy of Family Physicians · Harris v. McRae · Zeidman v. J. Ray McDermott & 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no conflict between the decision in Michigan Academy and ... the 1986 Act.”
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.