Scime v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
822 F.2d 7 · 1987
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2018
9 federal appellate ·
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 Schweiker v. Hansen · Parham v. J. L. · Corniel-Rodriguez v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Goldberg v. Weinberger · Simon v. Califano
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) the party to be estopped must know the facts; 2) he must intend that his conduct shall be acted on or must so act that the party asserting the estoppel has a right to believe it is so intended; 3) the latter must be ignorant of the true facts; and 4) he must rely on the former's conduct to his injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he government can be estopped where the traditional elements of estoppel and 'affirmative misconduct' are present.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Azizi v. Thornburgh“[n]o such distinction is fairly discoverable in Hansen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Eagle v. Sullivan
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.