Ahrens v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
852 F.2d 49 · 1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2019
5 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. § 2412 · 42 U.S.C. § 1381 (§ 1601 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1382A (§ 1612 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1382E (§ 1616 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1383 (§ 1631 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Weinberger v. Salfi · County of Los Angeles v. Davis · City of Mesquite v. Aladdin's Castle, Inc. · United States v. Concentrated Phosphate Export Assn., Inc.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because of the secretary’s clear position that he lacked power to so modify the agreement, any further administrative proceedings would have been futile; therefore exhaustion was not required.”). The Court rejects this argument since FERC never stated or implied it had no power to grant O & R relief. In contrast, FERC assumed power under PURPA to grant CL & P’s administrative petition and simply declined to exercise this power in the case of O & R. 43 . According to the Supremacy Clause, the U.S. Constitution and the laws passed pursuant to it are the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an attempt ... to conjure up an argument for mootness and thwart adjudication of the issue”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“on the eve of plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment”
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.