Cervantez v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Cervantez v. Sullivan (1992), 764 F. Supp. 1377 - Mid Valley Bank v. North Valley Bank (1991)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 28 U.S.C. § 1361 · 38 U.S.C. § 521 · 42 U.S.C. § 1381 (§ 1601 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1382 (§ 1611 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1382A (§ 1612 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1383 (§ 1631 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 659 (§ 459 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Mathews v. Eldridge · Baker v. Carr · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If funds that are merely earmarked for child support, but which are in fact in the possession of a federal benefits applicant or recipient cannot be considered “available income” within the meaning of the statute, it must follow that funds garnished to satisfy a child support judgment cannot be considered available income.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We fail to comprehend the Secretary's argument that financial compensation at some future date, should the claimants survive and prevail, mitigates the hardship which is visited upon claimants and their families each and every day.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“depend[s] for the very necessities of life cannot be fully remedied by the 'belated restoration of back benefits'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.