Ramos Colon v. Secretary of Health & Human Services’s Empirical Analysis
850 F.2d 24 · 1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2010
4 federal appellate · 3 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 42 U.S.C. § 406 (§ 206 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Blum v. Stenson · Grendel's Den, Inc. v. Larkin · Powell v. Dellums · King v. Greenblatt · Mckittrick v. Gardner
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.
“a court is not required to give blind deference to ... a contractual fee agreement, and must ultimately be responsible for fixing a reasonable fee for the judicial phase of the proceedings”
1 later decision 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.