Jones v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 federal appellate ·

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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Contributions must be made regularly and must be large enough to meet an important part of your ordinary living costs. Ordinary living costs are the costs for your food, shelter, routine medical care, and similar necessities. If the insured person only provides gifts or donations once in a while for special purposes, they will not be considered contributions for your support. Although the insured’s contributions must be made on a regular basis, temporary interruptions caused by circumstances beyond the insured person’s control such as illness or unemployment, will be disregarded unless during this interruption someone else takes over responsibility for supporting you on a permanent basis.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Childress ex rel. Childress v. Secretary of Health & Human Services · Phyllis Howard, as Guardian Ad Litem for Timothy Groves v. Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services

2. “because the loss of small, regular contributions to a poor family would cause the economic dislocation the Act seeks to prevent”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Phyllis Howard, as Guardian Ad Litem for Timothy Groves v. Louis W. Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services · Carter for Carter v. SEC. of Health & Human Services