Pease v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1998 · most notably Memorial Hospital v. Maricopa County (1974), Stern v. United States Gypsum, Inc. (1977)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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
Relies on Shapiro v. Thompson · Cruz v. Hauck · Pease v. Hansen
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether a welfare program is or is not federally funded is irrelevant to the constitutional principles enunciated in Shapiro v. Thompson, 394 U.S. 618 , 89 S.Ct. 1322 , 22 L.Ed.2d 600 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pease v. Hansen
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.