Morris v. Social Security Administration’s Empirical Analysis
689 F.2d 495 · 1982
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably McGraw v. Barnhart (2006), Burnett v. Heckler (1985)
18 federal appellate · 7 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. § 406 (§ 206 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Testa v. United States · Glendal B. Webb v. Elliot L. Richardson · Dawson v. Finch · Conner v. Gardner
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]henever a court renders a judgment favorable to a claimant ... represented before the court by an attorney ... for such representation....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“he shall ... fix ... a reasonable fee to compensate such attorney for the services performed”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“alone is empowered to make awards for services rendered in agency proceedings,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mudd v. Barnhart
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.