Lynch v. Philbrook’s Empirical Analysis
550 F.2d 793 · 1977
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 603 (§ 403 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 606 (§ 406 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Hagans v. Lavine · Townsend v. Swank · Williams v. Wohlgemuth · Venus Mandley v. James L. Trainor
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(s)ince the welfare statutes now rival the Internal Revenue Code in complexity, one interprets them with less than robust confidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Manfredi v. Maher · Herweg v. Ray“only an optional component of AFDC, once Vermont decided to participate in it, it was bound to follow the eligibility conditions established by federal law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bacon v. Toia“face the issue of how freely a state can define what constitutes an emergency for which (emergency assistance) will be paid,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bacon v. Toia
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.