dependent child
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 420 U.S. 575 - Burns v. Alcala · 1975Most cited · 384 citing opinions
a needy child (1) who has been deprived of parental support or care by reason of the death, continued absence from the home, or physical or mental incapacity of a parent, and who is living with his father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister, stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, or niece, in a place of residence maintained by one or more of such relatives as his or their own home, and (2) who is
How often courts cite the case defining “dependent child”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “dependent child” — 384 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.