Bordelon v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
810 F.2d 468 · 1986
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2012
8 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 7 U.S.C. § 2011 (Charitable Assistance and Food Bank Act of 1987) · 7 U.S.C. § 2021
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · Fontenot v. Upjohn Co. · Professional Managers, Inc. v. Fawer, Brian, Hardy & Zatzkis
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(e) Penalties. FNS shall take action as follows against any firm determined to have violated the Act or regulations. For the purposes of assigning a period of disqualification, a warning letter shall not be considered to be a sanction. A civil money penalty and a disqualification shall be considered sanctions for such purposes. The FNS regional office shall: (1) Disqualify a firm permanently if: (i) Personnel of the firm have trafficked in coupons or ATP cards....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) Disqualification or civil penalty Any approved retail food store or wholesale food concern may be disqualified for a specified period of time from further participation in the food stamp program, or subjected to a civil money penalty of up to $10,000 for each violation if tihe Secretary determines that its disqualification would cause hardship to food stamp households, on a finding, made as specified in the regulations, that such store or concern has violated any of the provisions of this chapter or the regulations issued pursuant to this chapter.”
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.