Perry v. Dowling’s Empirical Analysis
95 F.3d 231 · 1996
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Hardy v. New York City Health & Hospitals Corp. (1999), Auburn Housing Authority v. Martinez (2002)
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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. § 1396A (§ 1902 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1396K (§ 1912 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 654 (§ 454 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Rust v. Sullivan · United States National Bank v. Independent Insurance Agents of America, Inc. · Schweiker v. Gray Panthers · Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc.
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because the district court's disposition `presents only a legal issue of statutory interpretation.... [w]e review de novo whether the district court correctly interpreted the statute.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the state has received prior federal-agency approval to implement its plan, the federal agency expressly concurs in the state's interpretation of the statute, and the interpretation is a permissible construction of the statute”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in enacting 42 U.S.C. § 1396k, Congress clearly did not intend to encourage parents to live out-of-wedlock in the same home with their children in such a manner that they could receive carte blanche public assistance.”
2 later decisions 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.