Milton v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
616 F.2d 968 · 1980
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably 16558a Hamilton v. Secretary of Health & Human Services of United States (1992), Samuel C. EVANGELISTA, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Defendant, Appellee (1987)
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 404 (§ 204 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 416 (§ 216 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 423 (§ 223 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Eisenstadt v. Baker · Roberts v. Morton · Nickol v. United States · Beane v. Richardson
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Adjustment or recovery will defeat the purposes of title II in (but is not limited to) situations where the person from whom recovery is sought needs substantially all of his current income (including social security monthly benefits) to meet current ordinary and necessary living expenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any person who is without fault if such adjustment or recovery would defeat the purpose of (the Act) or would be against equity and good conscience.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dorman v. Harris“to enter, upon the pleadings and transcript of the record, a judgment affirming, modifying, or reversing the decision of the Secretary”
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.