Andrews v. Maher’s Empirical Analysis
525 F.2d 113 · 1975
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2009 · most notably Chapman v. Houston Welfare Rights Organization (1979), Lawrence v. Kozlowski (1976)
18 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Goldberg v. Kelly · Dandridge v. Williams · Hagans v. Lavine · Rosado v. Wyman · Patterson v. United States
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While (the Supremacy Clause) is the reason why a state law that conflicts with a federal statute is invalid, it is the federal statute that confers whatever rights the individual is seeking to vindicate.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mobil Oil Corp., Atlantic Richfield Co., United Refining Co., Inc., and Gulf Oil Co., Chevron U.S.A. Inc., Amoco Oil Co., Texaco Inc. And Exxon Corp. v. James H. Tully, Jr., Thomas H. Lynch, and Francis Koenig, Constituting the New York State Tax Commission Robert Abrams, Attorney General of the State of New York and James L. Larocca, Commissioner of the New York State Energy Office, New England Petroleum Corp. v. James H. Tully, Jr., Commissioner of Taxation and Finance of the State of New York, and Robert Abrams, Attorney General, State of New York, Defendants- Amerada Hess Corp. v. James H. Tully, Jr., Thomas H. Lynch and Francis Koenig, Constituting the New York State Tax Commission Robert Abrams, Attorney General of the State of New York, and James L. Larocca, Commissioner of the New York State Energy Office · 717 F. Supp. 784 - Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation, Inc. v. Pegues“Act of Congress providing for equal rights of citizens.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is a difference between extending section 1343(4) to laws such as these, which protect specific rights and engender comparatively little litigation, and applying it to section 1983, which protects all rights 'secured by the Constitution and laws.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gonzalez v. Young
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.