Wisconsin v. Constantineau’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
1,054 federal appellate · 539 district · 487 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,610 later decisions (131 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth (1972), Younger v. Harris (1971)
1,054 federal appellate · 539 district · 487 state decisions — followed in 45 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 Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Burford v. Sun Oil Co. · Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy · Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath · Sniadach v. Family Finance Corp. of Bay View
Cited together with Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Paul v. Davis · Perry v. Sindermann · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Bishop v. Wood
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 3,610 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here a person's good name, reputation, honor, or integrity is at stake because of what the government is doing to him, notice and an opportunity to be heard are essential.”
112 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Paul v. Davis · Bishop v. Wood“Where there is no ambiguity in the state statute, the federal court should not abstain but should proceed to decide the federal constitutional claim.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Yet, certainly where the State attaches ‘a badge of infamy’ to the citizen, due process comes into play. [Citation omitted.] ‘[T]he right to be heard before being condemned to suffer grievous loss of any kind, even though it may not involve the stigma and hardships of a criminal conviction, is a principle basic to our society.’ [Citation omitted.] Where a person’s good name, reputation, honor, or integrity is at stake because of what the government is doing to him, notice and an opportunity to be heard are essential.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Paul v. Davis · Colaizzi v. Walker
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.