Fuentes v. Shevin’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
1,734 federal appellate · 763 district · 2,788 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7,931 later decisions (159 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Mathews v. Eldridge (1976), Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973)
1,734 federal appellate · 763 district · 2,788 state decisions — followed in 49 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Younger v. Harris · Goldberg v. Kelly · Brady v. United States
Cited together with Sniadach v. Family Finance Corp. of Bay View · Mathews v. Eldridge · Goldberg v. Kelly · Mitchell v. W. T. Grant Co. · North Georgia Finishing, Inc. v. Di-Chem, Inc.
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 7,931 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at a meaningful time and in a meaningful manner.”
430 later decisions quote this exact passage“33. Leeway remains to develop a form of hearing that will minimize unnecessary cost and delay while preserving the fairness and effectiveness of the hearing in preventing seizures of goods where the party seeking the writ has little probability of succeeding on the merits of the dispute.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Indeed, in the civil no less than the criminal area, `courts indulge every reasonable presumption against waiver.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.