Groppi v. Leslie’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
154 federal appellate · 5 district · 146 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 416 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2016 · most notably United States v. Leon (1984), Daniels v. Williams (1986)
154 federal appellate · 5 district · 146 state decisions — followed in 27 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedGroppi v. Leslie (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy · Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath · Sniadach v. Family Finance Corp. of Bay View · In re Oliver
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 416 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here conviction and punishment are delayed, 'it is much more difficult to argue that action without notice or hearing of any kind is necessary to preserve order and enable [the court] to proceed with its business.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although due process rights are significantly compromised by summary contempt proceedings, some traditional rights are never surrendered; for example, in a summary contempt proceeding, `reasonable notice of a charge and an opportunity to be heard in defense before punishment is imposed are "basic in our system of jurisprudence”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Reasonable notice of a charge and an opportunity to be heard in defense before punishment is imposed are "basic in our system of jurisprudence." ... In Mullane v. Central Hanover Trust Co., 339 U. S. 306 (1950), the Court stated: "Many controversies have raged about the cryptic and abstract words of the Due Process Clause but there can be no doubt that at a minimum they require that deprivation of life, liberty or property by adjudication be preceded by notice and opportunity for hearing appropriate to the nature of the case." 339 U. S., at 313 .”
2 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.