Allen v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
821 F.2d 963 · 1987
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently May 2006 · most notably Jean v. Nelson (1988), Baker v. Bowen (1988)
18 federal appellate · 10 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 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 5 U.S.C. § 504 (Equal Access to Justice Act)
Relies on Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Hirschey v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission · Chipman v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Jackson 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“H.R.Rep. No. 120, 99th Cong., 1st Sess. 20, reprinted in 1985 U.S.Code Cong. & Admin.News 132, 149. Thus, as we concluded in Allen,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garcia v. Schweiker“decision not to raise the $75 flat hourly rate was in any way indicative of its desire to reduce the cost of living adjustment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jean v. Nelson“Pub.L. No. 99-80 ... intend[ed] to have the cost of living adjustment to the $75 an hour rate measured from 1981.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garcia v. Schweiker
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.