Robertson v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2018
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 7 U.S.C. § 2011 (Charitable Assistance and Food Bank Act of 1987) · 7 U.S.C. § 2016 · 7 U.S.C. § 2020 · 7 U.S.C. § 2025
Relies on Rodway v. United States Department of Agriculture · Haskins v. Stanton · Alexander v. Hill · Gutierrez v. Butz · Hess v. Hughes
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Court rejects [the Virginia Department of Social Service’s] contention that [it] need only bring Virginia’s Food Stamp Program into ‘substantial compliance’ with the federal timeliness requirements. The law requires full compliance absent what is hoped will be minimum human error. Lack of staff or funds is not legally excusable, and this Court will not consider these hurdles in formulating a decree that mandates full compliance with federal law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Virginia has 124 local social service agencies that accept and process all food stamp applications. In so doing, they act as agents for the defendant in matters relating to the Program within their jurisdictions. Va.Code § 63.1-67.3, et seq.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robertson v. Jackson“Lack of resources and lack of bad faith on the part of the agency officials [are] no excuse for failing to provide the plaintiffs their statutory entitlements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blanco v. Anderson
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.