Harris v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
675 F.2d 614 · 1982
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Dionne v. Bouley (1985), Chaloux v. Killeen (1989)
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
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 Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Roe v. Wade · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Philpott v. Essex County Welfare Board · Finberg v. Sullivan
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Inalienability of right to future payments The right of any person to any future payment under this subchapter shall not be transferable or assignable, at law or in equity, and none of the moneys paid or payable or rights existing under this subchapter shall be subject to execution, levy, attachment, garnishment, or other legal process, or to the operation of any bankruptcy or insolvency law. (b) Inamendability of section by inference No other provision of law, enacted before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this section, may be construed to limit, supersede, or otherwise modify the provisions of this section except to the extent that it does so by express reference to this section, (emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the checking account garnisheed [sic] ... contained Social Security benefits received by Mrs. Harris; Social Security being her only source of income.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“capable of repetition, yet evading review”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kennedy v. Block
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.