Brooks v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 1989
1 district · 2 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 Laws v. Celebrezze · Davidson v. Gardner · Cain v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Bridges v. Gardner · Rasmussen v. Gardner
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Deductions, . . . shall be made from any payment or payments under this title ... on the basis of such individual’s wages and self-employment income, ... if for such month he [claimant] is charged with excess earnings, under the provisions of subsection (f) of this section, (f) For purposes of subsection (b) of this section— (3) . (A)n individual’s excess earnings for a taxable year shall be his earnings for such year in excess of the product of $140 multiplied by the number of months in such year, .... (5) (A) An individual’s earnings for a taxable year shall be (i) the sum of his wages for services rendered in such year and his net earnings from self-employment for such year, . . (B) For purposes of this section— (i) an individual’s net earnings from self-employment for any taxable year shall be determined as provided in section 211, except that paragraphs (1), (4), and (5) of section 211(c) shall not apply and the gross income shall be computed by excluding the amounts provided by subparagraph (D), ....”
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.