Morton v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
708 F.2d 680 · 1983
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2015
1 federal appellate ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1295 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2283 · 42 U.S.C. § 659 (§ 459 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Hanson v. Denckla · United States v. Testan
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term 'legal process' means any writ, order, summons, or other similar process in the nature of garnishment, which— "(1) is issued by (A) a court of competent jurisdiction within any State, territory, or possession of the United States . . . and "(2) is directed to, and the purpose of which is to compel, a governmental entity, which holds moneys which are otherwise payable to an individual, to make a payment from such moneys to another party in order to satisfy a legal obligation of such individual to provide child support or make alimony payments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]either the United States, any disbursing officer, nor governmental entity shall be liable with respect to any payment made from moneys due or payable from the United States to any individual pursuant to legal process regular on its face,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) is issued by (A) a court of competent jurisdiction within any State, territory, or possession of the United States . . . and”
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.