Williams v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
790 F.2d 713 · 1986
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2004 · most notably Cruse v. Bowen (1989), Cline v. Sullivan (1991)
10 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. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Polaski v. Heckler · Polaski v. Heckler · Parsons v. Heckler · Weber v. Harris · Dozier v. Heckler
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“substantial evidence on the record viewed as a whole.”
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.