Callahan v. Woods

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding a requirement that a social security number be obtained and disclosed in order to receive welfare is a substantial burden for a “mark of the beast” believer
• declining to award summary judgment on appeal to appellant because “[i]t is possible that the law, before this appeal, was not sufficiently clear to have afforded [appellee] a realistic opportunity to present the relevant facts.”
• noting absence of such evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

28 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ronald Fink v. National Savings and Trust Company
  D.C. Circuit· 1985-09-03· cited 181×
• USA Petroleum Company v. Atlantic Richfield Company
  Ninth Circuit· 1994-01-06· cited 107×
• Christian Gospel Church, Inc. v. City and County of San Francisco
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-02-27· cited 80×
• The International Society for Krishna Consciousness of New Orleans, Inc. v. City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-07-05· cited 50×
• Crummey v. Social Security Administration
  District of Columbia· 2011-06-30· cited 50×
• Callahan v. Woods
  Ninth Circuit· 1984-07-05· cited 25×
• George K. Gordon v. The State of Idaho
  Ninth Circuit· 1985-12-19· cited 21×
• The Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, a Connecticut Corporation v. Gulf Insurance Company, a Missouri Corporation
  Seventh Circuit· 1988-01-15· cited 18×
• United States v. Thirty Eight (38) Golden Eagles or Eagle Parts
  D. Nevada· 1986-10-15· cited 16×
• North Valley Baptist Church v. McMahon
  E.D. California· 1988-09-29· cited 15×
• American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. v. Meese
  N.D. California· 1989-03-24· cited 15×
• United States v. Lundquist
  D. Oregon· 1996-07-30· cited 13×
• Best v. California Apprenticeship Council
  California Court of Appeal· 1984-10-12· cited 11×
• New Life Baptist Church Academy v. Town of East Longmeadow
  D. Massachusetts· 1987-07-27· cited 8×
• United States v. Jim
  D. Oregon· 1995-03-13· cited 7×
• In Re Turner
  N.D. California· 1996-03-11· cited 7×
• Gibson v. Babbitt
  S.D. Florida· 1999-08-27· cited 7×
• International Union v. National Right to Work Legal Defense
  D.C. Circuit· 1986-01-21· cited 4×
• Unnamed case
  Ninth Circuit· 1985-04-15· cited 2×
• Kerley Industries, Inc. v. Pima County
  Ninth Circuit· 1986-04-03· cited 2×