Doughty v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
839 F.2d 644 · 1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2005
3 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Catlin v. United States · Heckler v. Day · Glover Inc First Bank of Billings Montana v. Albuquerque National Bank
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ensure quality decisions in the face of heavy and escalating workloads and limited agency resources”
2 later decisions 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.