Quattlebaum v. Barry’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 2012
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2017 · 42 U.S.C. § 601 (§ 401 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 602 (§ 402 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 7 U.S.C. § 2017
Relies on Dandridge v. Williams · Kremer v. Chemical Construction Corp. · Rosado v. Wyman · Trafficante v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · Gravel v. United States
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Tjhere are many competing claims on the District’s limited financial resources. The Council cannot accommodate them all. Hard and painful choices must be made. The constitutional responsibility to make such choices falls upon our elected officials. They, and not the courts, are obliged “to reconcile the demands of ... needy citizens with the finite resources available to meet those demands.” Dandridge v. Williams, 397 U.S. 471, 472 , 90 S.Ct. 1153 , 25 L.Ed.2d 491 (1970). We are not authorized “to second-guess [District] officials charged with the difficult responsibility of allocating limited public welfare funds among the myriad of potential recipients.” Id. at 487 , 90 S.Ct. 1153 . We should accede to a request for judicial intrusion upon what we regard as a core [government] function only if it is plain that the Council’s action contravenes the federal legislation upon which appellants rely.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We are not authorized to second-guess [District] officials charged with the difficult responsibility of allocating limited public welfare funds among the myriad of potential recipients. We should accede to a request for judicial intrusion upon what we regard as a core legislative function only if it is plain that the Council's action contravenes [federal legislation].”
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.