Miller v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Goldman v. Folsom · Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare of the United States v. Meza · Gardner v. Wilcox · Staskel 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.
“[t]he burden of explanation then shifts to the Secretary, and the presumption can be dissipated 'by proof of facts that rationally explain the anomaly of the disappearance in a manner consistent with continued life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Aubrey v. Richardson“[W]hen the facts show that a person has been absent from his residence and unheard of for a period of seven years, a presumption arises that he is dead.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Aubrey v. Richardson
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.