Davis v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
825 F.2d 799 · 1987
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2007
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
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) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Weinberger v. Salfi · Flemming v. Nestor · Batson v. Kentucky · Jensen v. Heckler · Peeler 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This blanket suspension ... rationally promotes the legitimate underlying congressional policy goal of conserving scarce social security resources where a prisoner’s basic economic needs are provided from other public sources. Id at 801.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Prather v. Shalala
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.