Williams v. Mathews’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 1993
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 · Weinberger v. Salfi · Bolling v. Sharpe · Flemming v. Nestor · Mourning v. Family Publications Service, Inc.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * * * * [T]he committee believes that benefits for a child who is adopted by a worker already getting old-age or disability benefits should be paid only when the child lost a source of support because his parent retired or became disabled, and that the law should include safeguards against abuse through adoption of children solely to qualify them for benefits . S.R. 92-1230, 92d Cong. 2d Sess., 141 (1972); U.S.Code Cong. & Admin.News 1972, pp. 4989, 5039. .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the expense and other difficulties of individual determinations justified the inherent imprecision of a prophylactic rule.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(4) If the child of an insured individual was adopted after the insured individual became entitled to old-age or disability insurance benefits, the dependency of such child may not be established at the times specified in subparagraph (1) [time application filed] or (3) [time of entitlement] of this paragraph unless such child: (i) Is the natural child or stepchild of such insured individual (including a natural child or stepchild who was legally adopted by such insured individual), or (ii) (A) Was legally adopted by such insured individual in an adoption decreed by a court of competent jurisdiction within the United States, and (B) Had not attained the age of 18 before he began living with such insured individual; and (C) Was living with such insured individual in the United States and receiving at least one-half of his support from such insured individual: * % # * $ $ (3) Effective for months after July 1973 based on an application filed on or after July 1973, for the year immediately before the month in which the child’s application is filed if the child is the grandchild (as defined in § 404.1109(c) but not including a stepgrandchild) of the individual upon whose wages and self-employment income his application is based or the grandchild (as defined in § 404.1109(c)) of the individual’s spouse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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