Smith v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
597 F.2d 152 · 1979
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 19 Robert Desantis v. Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co., Inc. (1979), Jong Ha Wang v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1980)
23 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Udall v. Tallman · Desist v. United States · Clifford Macevoy Co v. United States · New York State Department of Social Services v. Dublino · Ehlert v. United States
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'(t)he language of a statute is the best and most reliable index of its meaning, and where the language is clear and unequivocal it is determinative of it construction.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Payments of the benefit of any individual may be made to any such individual or to his eligible spouse (if any) ... or, if the Secretary deems it appropriate to any other person ... who is interested in or concerned with the welfare of such individual (or spouse).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Payments ... to a representative payee of an eligible individual ... shall constitute payments to such eligible individual ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Evelyn v. Schweiker
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.