Kelley v. Tims’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
January 1969
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 410 (§ 210 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 418 (§ 218 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Luhrs v. City of Phoenix · City of Tucson v. Walker
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In each city having a population, according to the last federal census, of not less than twenty thousand inhabitants, there is created, and in each incorporated city or town having a population of less than twenty thousand inhabitants, there may be created by ordinance, a police pension fund, which shall be managed, controlled and distributed in accordance with the provisions of this article.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelley v. Tims““This article shall not apply to a city or town having and maintaining by charter or ordinance a pension or retirement plan for aged or physically disqualified members of the police department.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelley v. Tims
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.