Yeager v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
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 45 Cal. 2d 872 - Sefton v. Sefton · Folsom v. Pearsall · Sparks v. United States · 161 F. Supp. 905 - Nott v. Folsom · 143 F. Supp. 784 - Mays v. Folsom
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 legal question involved in this dispute is whether the claimant's rights to mother's social security insurance benefits, which were awarded to her as the widow of a wage earner and which were terminated by reason of her remarriage, are revived upon an annulment of the remarriage, even though the remarriage was not void, but voidable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Yeager v. Flemming
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.