Smith v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
820 F.2d 1093 · 1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2004
4 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 42 U.S.C. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Mathews v. Lucas · Jimenez v. Weinberger · Kail v. Heckler · Adams v. Weinberger · Doran v. Schweiker
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the father's support 'was commensurate with the needs of the unborn child at the time of the father's death.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Dependency is presumed if a child is legitimate unless adopted by another[.]”
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.