Tidwell v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
677 F.2d 560 · 1982
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably De La Fuente v. Stokely-Van Camp, Inc. (1983), Conner v. Reinhard (1988)
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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 Warth v. Seldin · General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. Falcon · O'Shea v. Littleton · Sosna v. Iowa · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gorrie v. Bowen“it cannot be said that [the form] is voluntary or that the patient retains enough control to remove the agreement from the ambit of section 407,”
1 later decision 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.