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855 F.2d 553 · 1988

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
February 1996
most recently cited

5 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Richardson v. Belcher · Atkins v. Parker · Gardebring v. Jenkins

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “As we have frequently noted: ‘[A] welfare recipient is not deprived of due process when the legislature adjusts benefit levels ____ [T]he legislative determination provides all the process that is due.’ The participants in the food-stamp program had no greater right to advance notice of the legislative change ... than did any other voters.... The claim that petitioners had a constitutional right to better notice of the consequences of the statutory amendment is without merit. All citizens are presumptively charged with knowledge of the law----”
    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.