Raftopol v. Ramey’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2024
22 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. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Wade v. Shook · Matter of Baby M. · Demar v. Open Space & Conservation Commission · 5 Cal. 4th 84 - Johnson v. Calvert · Carten v. Carten
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that those who promulgate statutes ... do not intend to promulgate statutes ... that lead to absurd consequences or bizarre results.... Accordingly, [w]e construe a statute in a manner that will not ... lead to absurd results.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Feehan v. Marcone“allows an intended parent who is a party to a valid [surrogacy] agreement to become a parent without first adopting the children, without respect to that intended parent's genetic relationship to the children”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it is axiomatic that those who promulgate statutes ... do not intend to promulgate statutes ... that lead to absurd consequences or bizarre results”
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.