Elam v. Hanson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2001
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 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. § 2751 · 42 U.S.C. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 601 (§ 401 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 602 (§ 402 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Markham v. Cabell · Haberman v. Finch · Anna Conklin v. Anthony J. Celebrezze, Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · 363 F. Supp. 897 - Brown v. Bates · Miller v. Richardson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“assistance for the one need, maintaining the family unit where one parent is unmarried, should not be reduced because a separate need of that parent for education is also present at the same time.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Provide that the determination of need and amount of assistance for all applicants and recipients will be made on an objective and equitable basis and all types of income will be taken into consideration in the same way except where otherwise specifically authorized by Federal statute * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Owens v. Heckler“any other income and resources ... of any other individual (living in the same home as such child and relative) whose needs the State determines should be considered in determining the need of the child or relative claiming such aid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sturgell v. Creasy
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.