Deel v. Lukhard’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 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. § 602 (§ 402 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 603 (§ 403 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · King v. Smith · Batterton v. Francis · Schweiker v. Gray Panthers · New York State Department of Social Services v. Dublino
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A State plan for aid and services to needy families with children must— (7) ... provide that the State agency— (B) shall determine ineligible for aid any family the combined value of whose resources (reduced by any obligation or debts with respect to such resources) exceeds $1,000 or such lower amount as the State may determine, but not including as a resource for purposes of this sub-paragraph ... (iii) for such period or periods of time as the Secretary may prescribe, real property which the family is making a good-faith effort to dispose of, but any aid payable to the family for any such period shall be conditioned upon such disposal, and any payments of such aid for that period shall (at the time of the disposal) be considered overpayments to the extent that they would not have been made had the disposal occurred at the beginning of the period for which the payments of such aid were made____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Deel v. Lukhard“if such conditions assist the State in the efficient administration of its public assistance programs, or further an independent State welfare policy, and are not inconsistent with the provisions and purposes of the Social Security Act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Deel v. Lukhard“include, for purposes of determining [AFDC] eligibility, the value of real property of which the family is not making a good faith effort to dispose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Deel v. Lukhard
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.