Conant v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 1992
3 federal appellate · 9 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
Relies on Occidental Life Insurance v. Powers · Moss v. Moss · State Ex Rel. Shomaker v. Superior Court · State Ex Rel. Hart v. Gleeson · Soper v. Wheeler
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.
““The amount and nature of old age assistance which any such person shall receive, and the manner of providing it, shall be determined by the said department with due regard to the conditions existing in each case; but such assistance together with the applicant’s own resources and income [as defined in this act] shall not be less than [exceed] the sum of thirty dollars ($30) per month to each recipient: . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.