Tambe v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2000
6 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 602 (§ 402 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Goldberg v. Kelly · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Rutledge v. Florida · Holley v. Lavine
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There are several compelling reasons for not validating a policy that shortchanges people who have been found eligible for these very “barebones” subsistence dollars, that the responsible agencies refuse to pay. This policy would tend to encourage a social service agency to engage in budgetary belt tightening at an unconscionable cost to people already living below the poverty guideline.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Castro v. Sugarman“The burden is always upon those administering the plan to see to it that the needy are paid what they are entitled to when they are entitled to it.... To hold otherwise, as the Government urges, will allow the Government to benefit from a forfeiture of welfare benefits to which the needy were entitled and ultimately to reward the Government for its mistakes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Castro v. Sugarman“) program. Tambe, who was unemployed at the time he moved back, applied to be added to his wife's public assistance grant. The Monroe County Department of Social Services denied Tambe's application on the ground that Tambe allegedly had failed to register with the New York Employment Services Division. 4 Tambe requested a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tambe v. Bowen
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.