709 F. Supp. 222 - Roberts v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2002
2 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 20 U.S.C. § 1087A · 26 U.S.C. § 6402 · 28 U.S.C. § 2415 (Indian Claims Limitation Act of 1982) · 31 U.S.C. § 3701 (Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996) · 31 U.S.C. § 3716 · 31 U.S.C. § 3720A
Relies on Thomas v. Bennett · 656 F. Supp. 570 - Gerrard v. United States Office of Education · 695 F. Supp. 1137 - Hurst v. United States Department of Education
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]he limitation set forth in section 2415(a) does not terminate all of the government’s rights on a contract claim after six years, but merely eliminates one potential remedy — the filing of a lawsuit seeking money damages. There are numerous avenues by which the underlying obligation embodied in the contract may be enforced after the six year period____ The statute of limitation can be differentiated from events which would extinguish the underlying obligation, such as discharge in bankruptcy, statutory discharge by reason of death or disability, or the successful assertion of defenses such as fraud in the inducement or failure of consideration.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that IRS offset is available not only for judicially enforceable debts but for all legally enforceable debts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Cavazos“the debt cannot become delinquent until it is in the hands of the agency requesting the offset.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Cavazos
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.