Whaley v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
663 F.2d 871 · 1981
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 4 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably White v. Shalala (1993), Bacon v. Lascelles (1996)
38 federal appellate · 4 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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
Relies on Udall v. Tallman · Schweiker v. Hansen · Brubaker v. Morton · Sturgell v. Creasy
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is to assure that recipients' income is maintained at a level viewed by Congress as the minimum necessary for the subsistence of that individual,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“believe that Congress intended either the forced separation of the family or the veteran to use his own separate funds that were intended for his children.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t would be a fascinating exercise of bureaucratic folly to attempt to monitor the percentage of groceries consumed by the veteran and the children, the amount of heat, hot water or electricity used by each, or the percentage of space occupied by each.”
2 later decisions 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.