Summy v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions

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

1. “for expenditures previously made over which there was little control and which could not have been used to meet”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Martin v. Sullivan · Sherman v. Griepentrog

2. “The payee of the check should not be determinative. If the money is to be used for the children, it is not the spouse's income, for it is not money "which he can apply ... to meeting his basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter." 20 C.F.R. § 416.1102 (a). Nor is it "actually available" in any meaningful sense. Id. § 416.1120.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 104 Wash. 2d 159 - Purser v. Rahm · Cervantez v. Sullivan

3. “carefully examined [the question] when the receipt of an item of value by an SSI beneficiary constitutes income which is actually available to meet the beneficiary's basic needs.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Paxton v. Secretary of Health & Human Services