Turner v. McMahon’s Empirical Analysis
830 F.2d 1003 · 1987
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably Foster v. Barilow (1993), Stringer v. Huet (1988)
28 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 602 (§ 402 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. United States · Arkadelphia Milling Co v. St Louis Southwestern Ry Co Hasty · Heckler v. Turner
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[G]eneral arguments about congressional intent and the EPA’s need for discretion cannot persuade us to abandon the clear language that Congress used when it drafted the statute. ‘The most persuasive evidence of ... [congressional] intent is the words selected by Congress’ ... not a court’s sense of the general role of citizen suits in the enforcement of the Act.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“financial assistance payment received by or for an assistance unit for the payment month which exceeds the amount for which the unit was eligible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rosas v. McMahon“A court's objective when interpreting a federal statute is to ascertain the intent of Congress and to give effect to legislative will.”
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.