Williams v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
966 F.2d 1259 · 1991
Citation profile
25 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Flores v. Shalala (1995), Yang v. Shalala (1994)
25 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Bowen v. Yuckert · Mabry v. Johnson · McGill v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Kali v. Bowen · Hill v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“decision is based on an erroneous conclusion of law or when the record contains no evidence on which [it] rationally could have based that decision.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Sampson v. Chater, 103 F.3d 918 , 921 (9th Cir.1996). We review the district court's decision that the Commissioner's position was substantially justified for abuse of discretion. Williams v. Bowen, 966 F.2d 1259, 1260 (9th Cir.1991). The district court abuses its discretion when its”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“each stage of the administrative and court 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.