Adams v. Weinberger’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.2d 656 · 1975
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Rosenberg v. Richardson (1976), Doran v. Schweiker (1982)
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Crowell v. Benson · Jimenez v. Weinberger · Gold v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Haberman v. Finch
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““assessment of the appropriate level of support necessary for an illegitimate posthumous child to meet the statutory burden must be guided by common sense and the Congressional desire to benefit all children who have lost the support of insured parents.” Id. at 660 .”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“claims from children who have no financial interest in their father's deaths but for the possible windfall benefits that the Social Security Act would bestow upon them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he purpose of the sections of the Act involved here is to provide support to children who have lost either the actual support of an insured parent or the anticipated support which that parent would have been expected to give had his death not intervened.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doran v. Schweiker
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.