Rush v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
573 F.2d 110 · 1978
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1994
5 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
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · King v. Smith · Batterton v. Francis · Jefferson v. Hackney · New York State Department of Social Services v. Dublino
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[s]o long as the State's actions are not in violation of any specific provision of the Constitution or the Social Security Act,' the courts may not void them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bray v. Dowling
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.