Jimenez v. Weinberger’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
176 federal appellate · 54 district · 169 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 725 later decisions (72 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Weinberger v. Salfi (1975), 660 So. 2d 1189 - State Ex Rel. Glover v. State (1995)
176 federal appellate · 54 district · 169 state decisions — followed in 25 states
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. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Dandridge v. Williams · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Bolling v. Sharpe · Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur
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 725 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the due process provision of the Fifth Amendment”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the blanket ... exclusion ... is [not] reasonably related to the prevention of spurious claims,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[V]isiting ... condemnation on the head of an infant is illogical and unjust. Moreover, imposing disabilities on the ... child is contrary to the basic concept of our system of justice that legal burdens should bear some relationship to individual responsibility or wrongdoing. Obviously, no child is responsible for his birth and penalizing the ... child is an ineffectual — as well as an unjust — way of deterring the parent.”
4 later decisions 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.