Viverito v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““(1) Assistance shall be continued until the fair hearing decision is rendered and through a period consistent with the established policies for issuance .of payments or authorization except in a case in which the department has determined, in accordance with Federal requirements, that the issue is one of State policy (including law and department regulations) and neither one of fact or judgment, nor whether the State’s policies (including law and department regulations) were correctly applied to the facts of the particular case. * * * * * * (2) 3n receipt of a request for a fair hearing the department shall promptly decide whether the case is one chat requires assistance to be continued, or does not require chat assistance be continued because the issue is one of State policy (including law and department regulations), and the department shall promptly advise the appropriate social services official and the recipient accordingly.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 474 F. Supp. 1122 - Viverito v. Smith