South Carolina State Education Assistance Authority v. Cavazos’s Empirical Analysis
897 F.2d 1272 · 1990
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2025
13 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 20 U.S.C. § 1072 · 20 U.S.C. § 1081
Relies on Ruckelshaus v. Monsanto Co. · Lynch v. United States · Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe · Buchanan v. Warley · Sinking-Fund Cases v. United States Central Pacific Railroad Company
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he public nature of the reserve funds themselves, coupled with the express contractual reservation of the power to amend the terms of the GSL program and the fact that the legislative changes involve a comprehensive federal/state social welfare program, forecloses a finding that the state agencies have obtained unalterable vested property rights to such payments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We agree that the regulations which completely control the reserve funds' uses are the sort of `existing rules or understandings' which prevent any guaranty agencies from acquiring an ownership interest in its reserve fund . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The reservation of the power to amend the terms of the [Guaranteed Student Loan] program prevents the participating state agencies from invoking the Fifth Amendment Takings bar against subsequent Congressional action.”
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.