Morrissey v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
4,213 federal appellate · 1,356 district · 8,533 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18,975 later decisions (300 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth (1972), Mathews v. Eldridge (1976)
4,213 federal appellate · 1,356 district · 8,533 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMorrissey v. Brewer (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Goldberg v. Kelly · Roviaro v. United States · Fuentes v. Shevin
Cited together with Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Mathews v. Eldridge · Wolff v. McDonnell · Goldberg v. Kelly · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth
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 18,975 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[D]ue process is flexible and calls for such procedural protections as the particular situation demands.”
1,244 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he `full panoply of rights' due a defendant in a criminal prosecution does not apply to revocation hearings for parole, for probation, or for supervised release.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage“[C]onsideration of what procedures due process may require under any given set of circumstances must begin with a determination of the precise nature of the government function involved as well as of the private interest that has been affected by governmental action.”
14 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.