Brown v. Hirst’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
August 1977
most recently cited
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Goldberg v. Kelly · Hodgin v. Noland
Most-quoted passages
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“Although the court may agree with the plaintiff that the hearing accorded him does not seem to have fulfilled any real purpose in that the defendant apparently paid no attention to it, his rights were not violated because the City had no obligation under the Constitution to grant him any hearing at all. 322 F.Supp. at 237 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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