Hatfield v. Cristopher’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2016
1 federal appellate · 18 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 42 U.S.C. § 407 (§ 207 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Murphy v. Carron · Philpott v. Essex County Welfare Board · Dionne v. Bouley · Landmark North County Bank & Trust Co. v. National Cable Training Centers, Inc. · City of St. Louis v. Senter Commission Co.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly exempts more than just the right to receive social security benefits.” Id. For that reason, the Missouri Court of Appeals reaffirmed that federal law preempted section 513.430.l(10)(a) with respect to social security benefits. Id. Dittmaier further argues the Missouri Court of Appeals’ interpretation of the phrase”
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.