Rivera v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The state cannot, however, ignore the Constitution and the Supreme Court’s decision in Shapiro v. Thompson, and alleviate its problems by an arbitrary discrimination against some of its people resident in the state by classification on the basis of length of residence. “Since the Court decided Shapiro , the lower courts have uniformly struck down all manner of attempts to establish durational residency requirements for state and local welfare. Only recently the Supreme Court in Graham v. Richardson, 403 U.S. 365 , 91 S.Ct. 1848 , 29 L.Ed.2d 534 (1971), (June 14, 1971) (Blackmun, J.) reaffirmed its continued adherence to the principles set forth in Shapiro in invalidating statutes which conditioned an alien’s welfare eligibility upon his length of residence in this country.” Rivera v. Dunn, 329 F.Supp. 554, 556 (D.Conn.1971), affirmed without hearing, 404 U.S. 1054 , 92 S.Ct. 742 , 30 L.Ed.2d 743 (1972).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Demiragh v. DeVos