eligible individuals
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 397 U.S. 471 - Dandridge v. Williams · 1970Most cited · 7,906 citing opinions
eligible applicants for AFDC grants, rather than all the family members whom the applicants may represent, and that the statutory provision was designed only to prevent the use of waiting lists.
How often courts cite the case defining “eligible individuals”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “eligible individuals” — 7,870 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.