Gallegos v. Lyng’s Empirical Analysis
891 F.2d 788 · 1989
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably United States v. Texas (1993), Thomas Brooks Chartered v. Burnett (1990)
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 31 U.S.C. § 3701 (Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996) · 31 U.S.C. § 3717 · 5 U.S.C. § 553 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 7 U.S.C. § 2013 · 7 U.S.C. § 2014 · 7 U.S.C. § 2016
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Bowman Transportation, Inc. v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. · Morton v. Mancari · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on an outstanding debt on a United States Government claim owed by a person,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is no evidence of congressional intent to prohibit ... the assessment of interest and other charges against State and local governments when an agency of the Federal Government is acting pursuant to some other authority which may be available to it, whether founded in statute or common law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“while the Supreme Court expressly reserved the issue, its reference ... to the relationship between the Debt Collection Act and the federal common-law right to collect interest at least suggests that the statute is not as ambiguous as appellant would have us find.”
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.