Yarbrough v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
341 F.2d 621 · 1965
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1994
3 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Whitman v. Whitman · Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. v. Alexander · Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. v. Watford · King v. King · Dorsey v. Dorsey
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.
“The term “widow” means the surviving wife of a person who, if not married to the person at the time he became eligible for retired or retainer pay- (A) was married to him for at least one year immediately before his death; or (B) is the mother of issue by that marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“was the lawful 'widow' of the decedent within the meaning and intent of [5 U.S.C. Sec. 8341(a)(1) ] and [was] entitled to receive the annuity provided for in [5 U.S.C. Sec. 8341(d) ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In enacting [5 U.S.C. Sec. 8341], Congress undoubtedly left the determination of whether an employee was married or not up to the laws of the individual states.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.