Hinrichs v. Whitburn’s Empirical Analysis
975 F.2d 1329 · 1992
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Wisconsin Central, Ltd. v. Shannon (2008), Lehn v. Holmes (2004)
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 42 U.S.C. § 602 (§ 402 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · New Orleans Public Service, Inc. v. Council of City of New Orleans · Trainor v. Hernandez · Yamanis v. United States · Midlantic National Bank v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prevent the courts, through avoidance of premature adjudication, from entangling themselves in abstract disagreements over administrative policies, and also to protect the agencies from judicial interference until an administrative decision has been formalized and its effects felt in a concrete way by the challenging parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Cases are unripe when the parties point only to hypothetical, speculative, or illusory disputes as opposed to actual, concrete conflicts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lehn v. Holmes“`hardship to the parties of withholding court consideration.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lehn v. Holmes
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.