Jones v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis

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5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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

1. “such law as would be applied in determining the devolution of intestate personal property ... [emanating from] the courts of the State.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 460 So. 2d 120 - Jones by Jones v. Harris · Jones v. Heckler

2. “upheld treatment of a child born out of wedlock [that was] less favorabl[e] than those whose parents had regularized their relationships for purposes of determining whether they met the 'dependency' requirements of the social security act. It was held to be proper, or at least not impermissibly discriminatory, to condition entitlement upon 'dependency' at the time of death.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lawrence on Behalf of Lawrence v. Shalala

3. “where state law affirmatively showed that the legislature had concluded that there were factors making a dependency relationship probable, despite the absence of the regularizing aspects of marriage of the parents or other events linking the child to the parent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lawrence on Behalf of Lawrence v. Shalala