Roston v. Folsom’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 2009
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. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Swayne & Hoyt, Ltd. v. United States · General Reinsurance Corp. v. Commissioner · Middleton v. Luckenbach S. S. Co. · Local Union No. 12, Progressive Mine Workers v. National Labor Relations Board · In re Biersack
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Social Security is in the nature of insurance. The terms ‘insured,’ ‘insurance’, and ‘beneficiary’ are used throughout the act. The retirement benefits are similar to an annuity; the survivor benefits resemble insurance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nestor v. Folsom““It is beyond reason to refer to Social Security benefits as property rights to which one might succeed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nestor 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.