Haskins v. Stanton’s Empirical Analysis
794 F.2d 1273 · 1986
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Cronen v. Texas Department of Human Services (1992), Victorian v. Miller (1987)
9 federal appellate · 5 district · 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 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 7 U.S.C. § 2011 (Charitable Assistance and Food Bank Act of 1987) · 7 U.S.C. § 2025
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Goldberg v. Kelly · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Cort v. Ash · Smith v. Miller
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because the defendants are required to comply with the Food Stamp Act under the terms of the Act, we do not see how enforcing compliance imposes any burden on them. The Act itself imposes the burden; this injunction merely seeks to prevent the defendants from shirking their responsibilities under it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here is ... doubtless a point at which any failure of total compliance is truly de minimis , where the state has come to comply 'as strictly as is humanly possible.' " Withrow , 942 F.2d at 1388 ; see also Haskins , 794 F.2d at 1277 ("As with any program of this size, a few inadvertent errors are inevitable, and we are confident that the district court will not exercise its equitable powers to hold the state in contempt for every minor, inadvertent infraction of the Act if the court is satisfied that the officials are complying with the Act as strictly as is humanly possible.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“literally requires strict compliance with its provisions.”
2 later decisions 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.