Boyd v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
797 F.2d 624 · 1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2020
5 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Flemming v. Nestor · United States Railroad Retirement Board v. Fritz · Schweiker v. Hansen · 400 F. Supp. 378 - Lazarus v. Weinberger
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While we might imagine rules that are, in our view, wiser and more equitable, the 'wisdom or unwisdom' of an eligibility requirement is a matter for [the legislature], not the courts, so long as there is, as here, a rational justification for the requirement.”
1 later decision 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.