Owens v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 2202 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 28 U.S.C. § 2284 · 42 U.S.C. § 1382 (§ 1611 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 301 (§ 1 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Edelman v. Jordan · Goldberg v. Kelly · Perry v. Sindermann
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that aid to families with dependent children shall . . be furnished with reasonable promptness to all eligible individuals”
1 later decision 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.