Hendricks v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
847 F.2d 1255 · 1988
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably Guglietti v. Secretary of Health and Human Services (1990), Vaughn v. Principi (2003)
16 federal appellate · 2 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. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Hewitt v. Helms · Diamond v. Charles · Traynor v. Turnage · Miranda v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of his victory. The proximate cause of his victory was the congressional enactment of a standard under which he was entitled to relief. We simply do not believe that Congress envisioned the”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n award is both appropriate and necessary when the claimant would have prevailed in his request for benefits, and would have recovered fees had the Reform Act never existed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Congress mandated reconsideration of all such currently pending claims under a newly enacted standard.”
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.