Roop v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2005
2 federal appellate · 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 Adair v. Finch · Collins v. Finch
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.
“The purpose of widow’s insurance benefits is to provide the widow of a wage earner a modicum of maintenance after her husband’s death dries up her source of support. These benefits are to make up for an actual economic loss arising out of the death of the wage earner. Adair v. Finch, 421 F.2d 652 (10th Cir.1970); Collins v. Finch, 311 F.Supp. 301 (W.D.Pa.1970). In this case there was no economic loss upon the wage earner’s death. The plaintiff’s economic condition did not change one iota due to the deceased wage earner’s death. It is hardly the purpose of the Social Security Act to award an estranged wife, who had no economic ties whatever to the wage earner, a windfall upon her former husband’s death.”
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.