Black v. Beame’s Empirical Analysis
550 F.2d 815 · 1977
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably Savage v. Aronson (1990), Taylor Walker v. G Ledbetter Phd
9 federal appellate · 7 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 601 (§ 401 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 602 (§ 402 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Stanley v. Illinois · Dandridge v. Williams · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Meyer v. State of Nebraska
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the fourteenth amendment does not afford a basis for a court to engage in the sorts of fiscal and psychological speculations [about the effect of the welfare system on family integrity].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a part-time social worker, who could aid Mrs. Black in locating a larger home, finding jobs for herself and her older children, and coping with other transitional problems.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here is a long line of precedents indicating that the government may not unreasonably interfere with ... [the right to] raise one's children as one wishes.”
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.