King v. Schafer’s Empirical Analysis
940 F.2d 1182 · 1991
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019
8 federal appellate · 7 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. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 407 (§ 207 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Philpott v. Essex County Welfare Board · Bennett v. Arkansas · Moore v. Colautti · Marshall v. North American Car 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The questions to be answered in resolving this case ... are whether the department's effort to become a representative payee, or its use of respondents' Social Security benefits when it acts in that capacity, amounts to employing an 'execution, levy, attachment, garnishment, or other legal process' within the meaning of § 407(a).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e cannot believe Congress contemplated this result in enacting § 407(a), particularly when this result would be contrary to another provision of the Social Security Act: § 405(j), providing for the appointment of representative payees.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]ursuant to [SSA] guidelines, thirty dollars of each patient's monthly benefits is available for personal expenses. If the patients want more than thirty dollars in one month for expenses they can request an additional amount from their benefits. Such requests have never been denied.”
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.