Roberts v. Austin’s Empirical Analysis
632 F.2d 1202 · 1980
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2013
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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.
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. Houston Welfare Rights Organization · Spector Motor Service, Inc. v. McLaughlin · Wilson v. Omaha Indian Tribe · The Canal Authority of the State of Florida v. Howard H. Callaway, Secretary of the United States Army, the Cross-Florida Canal Association v. Howard H. Callaway, Secretary of the United States Army, Eleanor H. Miller v. Avery S. Fullerton, Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Corps of Engineers of the United States Army, J. G. Perko v. The Canal Authority of the State of Florida, Etc. · Kenneth A. Plante v. Larry Gonzalez, Etc., Jon C. Thomas v. Larry Gonzalez, Etc.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Use or disclosure of information obtained from food stamp applicant households, exclusively for the Food Stamp Program, shall be restricted to persons directly connected with the administration or enforcement of the provisions of the Food Stamp Act or, regulations, or the Food Distribution Programs as defined in Part 283 of this Subchapter, or with other Federal or federally aided, means-tested assistance programs wuch as Title IV-A (AFDC), XIX (Medicaid), or XVI (SSI), or with general assistance programs that are subject to the joint processing requirements specified in Sec. 273.2(j)(2).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“But if another course is to be chosen, the fine men and women who have been elected to represent the people are quite competent to the task. The judiciary should neither assume the responsibility nor usurp authority not delegated to it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.