Stone v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
308 F.3d 751 · 2002
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Enrico St Cyr · Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital · American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]rior to the amendments, for all intents and purposes, there were no legal consequences to the overissuance because the indigent recipients were judgment proof or had no state tax refunds to intercept.... Since the enactment, collection is almost guaranteed.... By changing the remedies for collecting for overpayments from ineffective and discretionary to highly effective and mandatory, the amendment has increased the recipients' liability....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Suddenly the states were not only required to collect for their errors, but they also had an effective means of doing so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a State agency shall collect any overissuance of coupons issued to a household”
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.