Robertson v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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

1. “A state that chooses to operate its program through local, semi-autonomous social service agencies cannot thereby diminish the obligation to which the state, as a state, has committed itself, namely compliance with federal requirements governing the provision of the food stamp benefits that are funded by the federal government.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. New York · 700 F. Supp. 2d 186 - United States v. State of New York

2. “In essence, state welfare agencies are responsible for the day-to-day administration of the food stamp program (under Federal Rules) and a substan tial portion of their administrative costs. In a number of states, these responsibilities are passed down to local welfare agencies because of the structure of the state’s welfare system. The state, however, remains ultimately responsible and is the unit with which the [USDA] deals.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 118 F. Supp. 2d 352 - Reynolds v. Giuliani

3. “[T]he agency of State government, including the local offices thereof, which has the responsibility for the administration of the federally aided public assistance programs within such State, and in those States where such assistance programs are operated on a decentralized basis, the term shall include the counterpart local agencies administering such programs.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Harkless v. Brunner