Nott v. Flemming’s Empirical Analysis
272 F.2d 380 · 1959
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 1995
12 federal appellate · 6 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) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Gaines v. Jacobsen · Johnson v. Johnson · Folsom v. Pearsall · Pearsall 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Mother’s insurance benefits (g) (1) The widow * * * of an individual who died a fully or currently insured individual, if such widow * * * (A) has not remarried, ****** (D) has filed application for mother’s insurance benefits, * * (E) at the time of filing such application has in her care a child of such individual entitled to a child’s insurance benefit, * * ****** shall be entitled to a mother’s insurance benefit for each month, beginning with the first month after August 1950 in which she becomes so entitled to such insurance benefits and ending with the month preceding the first month in which any of the following occurs: * * * she remarries, * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The widow * * * of an individual who died a fully insured individual after 1939, if such widow— “(A) has not remarried, * * * * * “shall be entitled to a widow’s insurance benefit * *”
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.