Chavez v. Shea’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 1998
12 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. § 606 (§ 406 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia · United States Department of Agriculture v. Moreno · Korematsu v. United States · Air Pollution Variance Bd. of Colo. v. Western Alfalfa Corp. · Arizona State Department of Public Welfare v. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Maricopa County Legal Aid Clients v. Arizona State Department of Public Welfare and Department of Health, Education and Welfare
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an oral contract to adopt a child, fully performed except that there was no statutory adoption, and in which the rule is applied for the benefit of the child in the determination of heirship upon the death of the person contracting to adopt.”
1 later decision 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.