Burrow v. Finch’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Woodby v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Killian v. United States · Textile Mills Securities Corp. v. Commissioner · S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. v. Johnson · Celebrezze v. Bolas
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any case in which more than the correct amount of payment has been made, there shall be no adjustment of payments to, or recovery by the United States from, any person who is without fault if such adjustment or recovery would defeat the purpose of this subchapter or would be against equity and good conscience.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burrow v. Finch“An individual shall be deemed to have waived such entitlement [to retroactive benefits] for any such month for which such benefit would, under the second sentence of paragraph (1), be reduced to zero.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burrow v. Finch“to any extent that may be necessary, so that it will not render erroneous”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burrow v. Finch
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.