Taylor v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A substantial proportion of the persons receiving aid under the AFDC program are eligible because of the desertion by a parent of the child. Several provisions are already in the law and more are proposed under the bill to provide additional tools to States and to impose further obligations on them to assure the determination of legal responsibility for support and to make efforts to make these collections. The committee believes it is essential to make certain that all legally responsible parents of sufficient means make their appropriate contribution to the support of their children.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Doe v. Norton

2. ““We do not feel it necessary to engage in semantic struggle in order to characterize § 11477(b) as an ‘additional eligibility requirement’. It is true that the statute operates to terminate benefits rather than to prevent their inception. From a realistic viewpoint, however, we perceive little difference between conditions on initial eligibility and on continued eligibility: the central consideration is that AFDC aid is being denied to those who meet the only criteria — ‘need’ and ‘dependence’ — which Congress has established for eligibility.” 330 F.Supp. 90 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 350 F. Supp. 375 - Doe v. Ellis