Nigro v. Hobby’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2001
2 federal appellate · 3 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. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on United States v. Lalone · Fennell v. United States · Ramsey v. United States · Munson v. New England Mutual Life Insurance · Jacobs v. United States
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Presumption of death. Whenever it is necessary to determine the death of an individual in order to determine the right of another to a monthly benefit or a lump-sum death payment under section 202 of the act, and such individual has been unexplainably absent from his residence and unheard of for a period of seven years, the ad ministration, upon satisfactory establishment of such facts and in the absence of any evidence to the contrary) will presume that such individual had died.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.