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← 671 F. Supp. 343 - Bennett v. White

671 F. Supp. 343 - Bennett v. White’s Empirical Analysis

1987

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
June 1994
most recently cited

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 602 (§ 402 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 654 (§ 454 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 657 (§ 457 of the Social Security Act of 1935)

Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Webb's Fabulous Pharmacies, Inc. v. Beckwith · Kirby Forest Industries, Inc. 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[w]hile the Eleventh Amendment bars the payment of interest to plaintiffs, it certainly does not preclude the payment to plaintiffs of their money which the defendants withheld improperly.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “inappropriate for the defendants to suggest that their policies and procedures control when they fail to follow them.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[r]ecipients should be able to keep a record of how much assistance they have received.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.