Lyng v. Payne’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
327 federal appellate · 107 district · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 934 later decisions (33 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably Stinson v. United States (1993), Thomas Jefferson University v. Shalala (1994)
327 federal appellate · 107 district · 76 state decisions — followed in 17 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Appellate journey
reviewedPayne v. Block (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 44 U.S.C. § 1507 · 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 553 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 706 · 7 U.S.C. § 1961
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Udall v. Tallman · Federal Crop Ins Corporation v. Merrill · Heckler v. Community Health Services of Crawford County, Inc. · United States v. Larionoff
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 934 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“agency's construction of its own regulations is entitled to substantial deference”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have never held that applicants for benefits, as distinct from those already receiving them, have a legitimate claim of entitlement protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fifth or Fourteenth Amendment.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not all agency publications are of binding force”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Epi Corporation, Doing Business as Briarwood Nursing and Convalescent Center v. Shirley S. Chater, Commissioner of Social Security · Coliseum Square Association, Inc., Smart Growth for Louisiana, Louisiana Landmarks Society, Inc., Historic Magazine Row Association and the Urban Conservancy, Inc. v. Alphonso Jackson, Etc., Alphonso Jackson, Acting Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Housing Authority of New Orleans, Coliseum Square Association, Inc., Smart Growth for Louisiana, Louisiana Landmarks Society, Inc., Historic Magazine Row Association and the Urban Conservancy, Inc. v. Housing Authority of New Orleans, an Agency of the State of Louisiana, Alphonso Jackson, Acting Secretary, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development v. Historic Restoration, Inc., Intervenor-Appellee
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.