Grant v. Shalala’s Empirical Analysis
989 F.2d 1332 · 1993
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 9 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Checkosky v. Securities & Exchange Commission (1994), Mace v. Skinner (1994)
11 federal appellate · 9 district · 9 state decisions
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
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Butz v. Economou · Weinberger v. Salfi · Hagans v. Lavine
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.
“[q]uestions which merely lurk in the record, neither brought to the attention of the court nor ruled upon, are not to be considered as having been so decided as to constitute precedents.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t has long been recognized that attempts to probe the thought and decision making processes of judges and administrators are generally improper.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“During that conversation he just said let me sit you down and explain to you why I’m not paying this case. He then went on in great detail to explain to me that he had a theory about blacks, Hispanies, poor white people that he had developed while he was in California, and that typically these people are drug addicts or alcoholics or have decided to adopt a lifestyle where they just will not work no matter what, that they preferred living on public monies, including welfare payments, Worker’s Compensation if they could get it if they had a work history, and Social Security Benefits. He said that he did not care what the evidence showed, that he did not care if his Decision was reversed by the Appeals Council or the Courts, that he had no intention of paying the case based on what he had.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.