Hecht v. Monaghan’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 113 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Hyson v. Montgomery County Council (1966), Nnebe ex rel. Amin v. Daus (2011)
5 federal appellate · 113 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
Relies on Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath · Morgan v. United States · Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co. · Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath · Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`To one who protests against the taking of his property without due process of law, it is no answer to say that in his particular case due process of law would have led to the same result because he had no adequate defense upon the merits.' * * * ( Coe v. Armour Fertilizer Works , 237 U. S. 413, 424 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`(a) judicial inquiry investigates, declares, and enforces liabilities as they stand on present or past facts and under laws supposed already to exist'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.