Wc v. R Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2020
1 federal appellate · 3 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 Chrysler Corporation v. Brown · Bowen v. City of New York · Alcaraz v. Block · Taylor v. Heckler · Powderly v. Schweiker
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“changed existing policy,” observing that before adoption of the program, "decisions from one ALJ were no more likely to be reviewed than those of another. Nor was any class of claimants more likely to be reviewed.” Id. at 1504 . Thus, the district court in W.C. found, "it caused those judges to deny benefits in close cases where benefits might previously have been granted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[r]ules which substantially limit an agency's discretion are generally substantive rules.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“effects a change in existing law or policy”
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.