Townsend v. Quern’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
January 2005
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 606 (§ 406 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Catlin v. United States · Quern v. Jordan · Milliken v. Bradley · In re Sanford Fork & Tool Co.
Most-quoted passages
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“It is an age old axiom that equity will not do a useless thing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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