Bailey v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
777 F.2d 1167 · 1985
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2018
11 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 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 406 (§ 206 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Pennhurst State School & Hospital v. Halderman · Briggs v. Connecticut · Northcross v. Board of Education · Glendal B. Webb v. Elliot L. Richardson · Mckittrick 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“this court has stressed that given the general lack of correlation between the amount of a social security award and the attorney's performance, courts should hesitate to grant 'routine approval' of the statutory maximum contingency fee.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“articulate on the record findings of fact or conclusions of law explaining the court's reasoning and calculations performed to arrive at the fee award, sufficient to permit a meaningful review of the record.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“this court is not in a position to determine whether the district court committed an abuse of discretion without adequate findings in the record explaining the court's actions and articulating the basis for its calculations.”
2 later decisions 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.