Wilcox v. Petit’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2016
5 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) · 42 U.S.C. § 654 (§ 454 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 657 (§ 457 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Copeland v. United States · Weiss v. York Hospital · Irving v. Mississippi · Miller v. Mackey International, Inc.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable, (2) there are questions of law or fact common to the class, (3) the claims or defenses of the representative parties are typical of the claims or defenses of the class, and (4) the representative parties will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the class.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vigue v. Ives“Defendants have established a regulatory scheme concerning the “passthroughs” which is generally applicable to the class, thereby making appropriate injunctive or declaratory relief with respect to the class as a whole. Thus, the Plaintiffs qualify for class certification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Luyando v. Bowen
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.