Holley v. Lavine’s Empirical Analysis
605 F.2d 638 · 1979
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2023 · most notably Maine v. Thiboutot (1980), Copeland v. Marshall (1979)
31 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 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. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 601 (§ 401 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Scheuer v. Rhodes · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“required by law to provide for the 'assistance and care of any person ... who is in need of public assistance and care which he is unable to provide for himself.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marbley v. Bane“great[ ] significance [to the fact that] the entity upon whom rests the primary obligation to make payments to the AFDC recipient ... appears to be the County.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marbley v. Bane“Moreover, 'the county's duty to provide assistance is not dependent upon the receipt of equivalent money from the State and the cases have so held.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marbley v. Bane
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.