Bloch v. Ewing’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 414 (§ 214 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Williams v. State of North Carolina · Social Security Board v. Nierotko · United States v. Freeman · Matter of Rouss · Caldwell v. Caldwell
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That duty is to apply in the absence of any determination by the New York courts, ‘such law as would be applied’ by them ‘in determining the devolution of intestate personal property’ of the decedent in a proper action for such a determination in the state court.” [Italics supplied.]”
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.