Coalition for Basic Human Needs v. King’s Empirical Analysis
654 F.2d 838 · 1981
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Weaver v. Henderson (1993), Coalition for Basic Human Needs v. King (1982)
16 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 state decisions
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 Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Edelman v. Jordan · Quern v. Jordan · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Rosado v. Wyman
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“irreparability of harm is now excruciatingly obvious,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Our problem is that not only is case authority for constitutionally required notice based on a preparedness-for-disaster rationale apparently non-existent, but that we cannot easily envisage the kind of notice that should be expected of the Commonwealth..... [W]e doubt that pro forma notice that there might be a delay in checks because of the budgetary process would be of much help.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dowling v. Davis“to take all steps that may be necessary to ensure that the second semi-monthly checks of July will issue promptly and on schedule to all AFDC recipients.”
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.