Vaughn v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
83 F.3d 907 · 1996
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2012
8 federal appellate · 3 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 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 42 U.S.C. § 1309 (§ 1109 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1382A (§ 1612 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1382C (§ 1614 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1396A (§ 1902 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1396B (§ 1903 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Federal Communications Commission v. Beach Communications, Inc. · Vance v. Bradley · Alexander v. Choate · Minnesota v. Clover Leaf Creamery Co. · Schweiker v. Gray Panthers
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“programs thusly: Means-tested public assistance programs place a tax on earnings. Not a direct tax, after the fashion of the Internal Revenue Code, but an indirect one. Greater earnings yield less assistance. This is what it means to say that a program is means-tested, with benefits concentrated on persons with lower incomes or wealth. Vaughn v. Sullivan (C.A.7, 1996), 83 F.3d 907 , 908 . (Emphasis added.) {¶ 29} In the legislative history of the Welfare Reform Act,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a legislative decision `may be based on rational speculation unsupported by evidence or empirical data.'”
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.