Watts v. Veneman’s Empirical Analysis
476 F.2d 529 · 1973
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1994
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 403 (§ 203 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Flemming v. Nestor · Levy v. Louisiana Ex Rel. Charity Hospital · Glona v. American Guarantee & Liability Insurance · Labine v. Vincent · Duke Power Co. v. Greenwood County
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The illegitimate children of a female and the issue of illegitimate children of a female are capable to take real and personal estate by inheritance from their mother, or from each other, or from the descendants of each other, as the case may be, in like manner as if born in lawful wedlock.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Green
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.