Boyd v. Folsom’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 1988
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
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. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Arthur v. Morgan · Ferenz v. Folsom · Livingstone v. Folsom · Indemnity Insurance Co. of North America v. Sanders · Schurler v. Industrial Commission
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.
““The involvements and complexities which underlie the marriage relationship do not lend themselves to rigid and dogmatic interpretation. To limit the evaluation of whether husband and wife were living together in one household to sole consideration of living under one roof is, in my judgment, unduly restricting and giving shallow effect to the meaning and significance of the sanctity of marriage vows.” Boyd v. Folsom, 149 F. Supp. 925, 927 (D. C. W. D. Pa. 1957), affirmed 257 F. 2d 778 ( 3 Cir. 1958).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Section 216(h) (2), 42 U.S.C.A. § 416(h) (2). The validity of Mrs. Boyd's claim on behalf of her children turns on whether the children were”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyd v. Folsom“the wage earner at the time of his death. The statute further provides that a widow shall be deemed to have been”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyd v. Folsom
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.