Eisenhauer v. Mathews’s Empirical Analysis
535 F.2d 681 · 1976
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2011
9 federal appellate · 1 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. § 301 (§ 1 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 403 (§ 203 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 404 (§ 204 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 414 (§ 214 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 415 (§ 215 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Weinberger v. Salfi · Scalza v. United States · Jimenez v. Weinberger · Gold v. Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare · Kerner v. Flemming
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Social Security Act is to be accorded a liberal application in consonance with its remedial and humanitarian aims.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a person who is not the stepchild of an individual shall be deemed the stepchild of such individual if . such individual and the mother ... of such person went through a marriage ceremony resulting in a purported marriage between them which, but for a legal impediment described in the' last sentence of subsection (h)(1)(B) of this section, would have been a valid marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]or purposes of this subparagraph, a legal impediment to the validity of a purported marriage includes only an impediment (i) resulting from the lack of dissolution of a previous marriage or otherwise arising out of such previous marriage or its dissolution or (ii) resulting from a defect in the procedure followed in connection with such purported marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.