Triplett v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
767 F.2d 210 · 1985
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2012
8 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
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Califano v. Sanders · Weinberger v. Salfi · Heckler v. Community Health Services of Crawford County, Inc. · McGowen v. Harris
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] claimant could otherwise indefinitely delay a 'final decision' simply by bombarding the Council with a series of 'new' pieces of evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he decision [in Sanders ] ... suggests jurisdiction does not exist unless the Secretary conducted a new hearing on the petition to reopen. Because this case does not properly raise the question, however, we leave the task of answering it to another day.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thibodeaux v. Bowen“[t]he letter did not indicate that it embodied the Secretary's final decision, but neither did it state that the Council had 'reopened' Triplett's case or that the Council had extended the time in which Triplett could seek judicial review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Banta v. Sullivan
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.