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404 U.S. 70

92 S. Ct. 318

30 L. Ed. 2d 224

Docket No. 70-5376.

Pease v. Hansen

Supreme Court of the United States

November 16, 1971

Supreme Court of the United States · decided November 16, 1971

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““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 .””

quoted by 1 later decision, including Pease v. Hansen

Relies on Shapiro v. Thompson · Cruz v. Hauck · Pease v. Hansen

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Opinion by Per Curiam · Decided November 16, 1971

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

240197119801990decided

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.

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PER CURIAM.

¶1

The motion of the appellant for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is granted.

¶2

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. The judgment of the Supreme Court of Montana is reversed.

¶3

THE CHIEF JUSTICE is of the opinion that probable jurisdiction should be noted and the case set for oral argument.

¶4

For opinion after remand see 494 P.2d 925.

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