Almeida v. Lucey’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1995
4 district · 10 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 28 U.S.C. § 2284 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Younger v. Harris · Goldberg v. Kelly · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · United States v. Tucker
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]or a determination adequate to support revoking a license, a non-jury [state] district court proceeding provides all the necessary elements of due process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) That he suffered deprivation of a valuable right without due process (2) That the revocation provision of M.G.L. c. 90 § 2(a)(c) [§ 24(2)(a, c)] constitutes an unconstitutional penalty on the right to trial by jury in the Massachusetts “two tier trial de novo system.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no appeal ... shall operate to stay the revocation of the license.”
1 later decision 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.