Fleming v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
594 F.2d 1081 · 1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1990
2 federal appellate ·
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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Mathews v. Lucas · Norton Ex Rel. Chiles v. Mathews
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Applicants who are not actually dependent, but who have an expectation of, and a need for, support are simply (and unfortunately) excluded from receiving benefits unless they meet one of the presumptions of dependency.”
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.