Stratton v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
827 F.2d 1447 · 1987
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Jean v. Nelson (1988), Loza v. Apfel (2000)
15 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 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 1382C (§ 1614 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 301 (§ 1 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Bowen v. Yuckert · Goodermote v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Spencer v. National Labor Relations Board · Federal Election Commission v. National Conservative Political Action Committee · Brady 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“means, in addition to the position taken by the United States in the civil action, the action or failure to act by the agency upon which the civil action is based.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Especially puzzling, however, have been statements by some courts that an administrative action may be substantially justified under the Act even if it must be reversed because it ... was not supported by substantial evidence. Agency action found to be ... unsupported by substantial evidence is virtually certain not to have been substantially justified under the Act. Only the most extraordinary special circumstances could permit such an action to be found to be substantially justified under the Act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The government bears the burden of showing that its position was substantially justified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.