Johnson v. Hobby’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 1980
4 federal appellate · 2 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 Hobby v. Hodges · United States v. Lalone · Social Security Board v. Warren
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a person orally or in writing expresses an intention to claim benefits * , * * and it appears that such person is not eligible or that his eligibility is so doubtful that the taking of an application upon a prescribed form would not be warranted, the Bureau should so advice such person and shall also advise him that if he desires he may file an application on a prescribed form and obtain a formal adjudication. Where an application on a prescribed form is not then filed because of doubtful eligibility, the Bureau shall make and maintain in its files a written record of the expressed intention to claim benefits * * * in all cases in which some possibility of entitlement exists, even though remote. If it is later found that such person was eligible for benefits * * * at the time the record was made, this record shall, except where such person otherwise indicates, be deemed an application filed with the Bureau as of the date it is made; Provided, that an application on a prescribed form is also furnished to the Bureau. Thereafter, adjudication should proceed as in other cases.”
2 later decisions 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.