Wilcox v. Petit’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 652 (§ 452 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 654 (§ 454 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 657 (§ 457 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · Bowen v. Michigan Academy of Family Physicians · National Labor Relations Board v. Brown · Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms v. Federal Labor Relations Authority
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the first $50 of such amounts as are collected periodically which represent monthly support payments shall be paid to the [AFDC] family without affecting its eligibility for assistance or decreasing any amount otherwise payable as assistance to such family during such month.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No rational purpose is served by denying child support to a needy family because an employer failed to promptly forward funds withheld from a paycheck or because the state itself has not promptly entered the money onto its books.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilcox v. Ives
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.