109 N.C. App. 628 - Morrell v. Flaherty’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 601 (§ 401 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 602 (§ 402 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 605 (§ 405 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on King v. Smith · Lewis v. Martin · Bowen v. Gilliard · Van Lare v. Hurley · McCoog Ferguson v. Hegstrom
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]y making those children a part of an already existing [AFDC assistance] unit, the household receives only an incremental increase in benefits based on the concept of economies of scale. Thus, the policy discourages needy people from taking in dependent relatives, frustrating the very purpose of the AFDC program, a program designed to keep dependent children with their families.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morrell v. Flaherty“[N]amed plaintiffs and other members of the class whose DSS mandated assistance unit contains not only dependent children who are not their siblings, but also an adult who is legally responsible for the non-sibling children, but not legally responsible for the class members.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morrell v. Flaherty
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.