Singleton v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
841 F.2d 710 · 1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Hendricks v. Bowen (1988), Melkonyan v. Heckler (1990)
4 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Bowen v. Yuckert · Hanrahan v. Hampton · Bowen v. City of New York · Hewitt v. Helms · Mullins Coal Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... a court shall award to a prevailing party other than the United States fees and other expenses, in addition to any costs awarded pursuant to subsection (a), incurred by that party in any civil action (other than cases sounding in tort), including proceedings for judicial review of agency action, brought by or against the United States in any court having jurisdiction of that action, unless the court finds that the position of the United States was substantially justified or that special circumstances make an award unjust.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nesvold v. Bowen
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.