Potts v. Potts’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 407 (§ 207 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 601 (§ 401 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 602 (§ 402 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Sullivan v. Stroop · Todd v. Norman
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A State plan for aid and services to needy families with children must- * * # * * * (26) provide that, as a condition of eligibility for aid, each applicant or recipient will be required- (A) to assign the State any rights to support from any other person such applicant may have (i) in his own behalf or in behalf of any family member for whom the applicant is applying for or receiving aid, and (i) which have accrued at the time such assignment is executed."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Head v. State
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.