Morgan v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
779 F.2d 544 · 1985
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Watkins v. United States Army (1989), Wagner v. Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency (1988)
29 federal appellate · 2 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 Heckler v. Community Health Services of Crawford County, Inc. · Schweiker v. Hansen · United States v. Georgia-Pacific Co. · United States v. Lazy FC Ranch · Hansen 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“estoppel will only apply where the government's wrongful act will cause a serious injustice, and the public's interest will not suffer undue damage by imposition of the liability.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“' "affirmative misconduct going beyond mere negligence”
6 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.