Boddie v. Connecticut’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
1,110 federal appellate · 524 district · 2,381 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5,824 later decisions (176 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2025 · most notably Jackson v. Virginia (1979), Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth (1972)
1,110 federal appellate · 524 district · 2,381 state decisions — followed in 50 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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Gideon v. Wainwright · Goldberg v. Kelly
Cited together with Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Goldberg v. Kelly · Fuentes v. Shevin · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust 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 5,824 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that an individual be given an opportunity for a hearing before he is deprived of any significant property interest.”
234 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We do not decide that access for all individuals to the courts is a right that is, in all circumstances, guaranteed by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment so that its exercise may not be placed beyond the reach of any individual, for, as we have already noted, in the case before us this right is the exclusive precondition to the adjustment of a fundamental human relationship.”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(W)e think that reliable alternatives exist to service of process by a state-paid sheriff if the State is unwilling to assume the cost of official service. This is perforce true of service by publication which is the method of notice least calculated to bring to a potential defendant's attention the pending of judicial proceedings. . . . We think in this case service at defendant's last known address by mail and posted notice is equally effective as publication in a newspaper (citations omitted).”
15 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.