Straw v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
866 F.2d 1167 · 1989
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Mt. Graham Red Squirrel v. Madigan (1992), Allen v. Shalala (1995)
29 federal appellate · 5 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 Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Pennsylvania v. Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air · Kerr v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California · Ed. Kerr v. Screen Extras Guild, Inc., a Corporation, Richard A. Perkins, Counsel for Ed Kerr v. Screen Extras Guild, Inc., a Corporation, H. O'Neil Shanks, and Norman Stevans, Richard A. Perkins, Counsel For
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a circumstance of hardship that cries out for the unusual remedy of the reopening of a final judgment under Rule 60(b)(6).'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must demonstrate 'extraordinary circumstances' to justify relief from judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must show that the district court committed a specific error.”
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.