Perez v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 2013
1 federal appellate · 3 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 De Sylva v. Ballentine · Miller v. . Miller · In re the Accounting of Vincent · In re the Estate of Slater · In re the Accounting of Garretson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All children have, with respect to their parents and with respect to the property left by the latter, the same rights that correspond to legitimate children.”
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.