Rodriguez v. Cuomo’s Empirical Analysis
953 F.2d 33 · 1992
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2016
7 federal appellate · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 1437A · 42 U.S.C. § 8621 (Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981) · 42 U.S.C. § 8624
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Blum v. Stenson · Cannon v. University of Chicago · Russello v. United States
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“plaintiffs' heating costs represent a fixed percentage of their income, and are already substantially subsidized. Unlike tenants living in non-government-subsidized-housing, plaintiffs' rent cannot go up in response to a rise in their landlord's heating costs....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marbley v. Bane“[a] state may rationally conclude that tenants occupying government subsidized housing with heat included in their rent are less in need of HEAP funds than, for example, tenants who do not live in such housing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marbley v. Bane“whether in light of the limited federal funds available may aid be given to those the state deems most in need, even though this results in others also in need not being provided for?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. West v. Sullivan
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.