Schroeder v. Hobby’s Empirical Analysis
222 F.2d 713 · 1955
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 1991 · most notably Blanscet v. Ribicoff (1962), Randall v. Flemming (1961)
12 federal appellate · 4 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)
Relies on United States v. Silk · Baetich v. Hobby · Golden v. Golden · Cassan v. Cassan
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Social Security Act is to be liberally construed as an aid to the achievement of its Congressional purposes and objectives. Narrow technicalities which proscribe or thwart its policies and purposes are not to be adopted.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to extend mother's benefits to a former wife whose economic relationship to the insured wage earner was such that she sustained economic loss arising out of his death.”
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.