Wolfe Londoner v. City and County of Denver’s Empirical Analysis
210 U.S. 373 · 1908
Citation profile
245 federal appellate · 45 district · 288 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 842 later decisions (63 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Fuentes v. Shevin (1972), Boddie v. Connecticut (1971)
245 federal appellate · 45 district · 288 state decisions — followed in 40 states
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
Relies on Hagar v. · Fallbrook Irrigation District v. Bradley · Pittsburgh St Ry Co v. Backus Indianapolis V R Co · Raymondv v. Chicago Union Traction Co.
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 842 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] hearing in its very essence, demands that he who is entitled to it shall have the right to support his allegations by argument however brief, and, if need be, by proof, however informal.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[D]ue process of law requires that ... the [party] shall have an opportunity to be heard, of which he must have notice....”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘The proceedings from the beginning up to and including the passage of the ordinance authorizing the work did not include any assessment or necessitate any assessment, although they laid the foundation for an assessment, which might or might not subsequently be made. Clearly all this might validly be done without hearing to the landowners, provided a hearing upon the assessment itself is afforded. Voigt etc. R.R. Co. v. Detroit, 184 U.S. 115 [ 22 S.Ct. 337 , 46 L.Ed. 459 ] ; Goodrich v. Detroit, 184 U.S. 432 [ 22 S.Ct. 397 , 46 L.Ed. 627 ].’ (Londoner v. Denver, 210 U.S. 373, 378 [ 28 S.Ct. 708 , 52 L.Ed. 1103 ].)””
2 later decisions 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.