Tello v. McMahon’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2019
2 federal appellate · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 601 (§ 401 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 602 (§ 402 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a large percentage of the payment errors made in the AFDC program relate to earned income and the failure of the recipient to report the correct amount of any changes in amount earned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vierra v. Rubin“(III) failed without good cause to make a timely report (as prescribed by a State plan ...)....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vierra v. Rubin“Congress left the determination of timeliness [in section 602(a)(8)(B)(i)(III) ] to the states”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vierra v. Rubin
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.