Watson v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
940 F.2d 168 · 1991
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2023
10 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 42 U.S.C. § 404 (§ 204 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Viehman v. Schweiker
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and (2) recovery would either defeat the purpose of Title II of the Social Security Act or would be against equity and good conscience. 42 U.S.C. § 404(b). 18 The threshold issue in determining whether recovery of an overpayment of benefits should be waived is the beneficiary's”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“bureaucratic lapse ... will benefit a claimant only if he is totally blameless.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that he had reason to know he was getting a windfall,”
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.