Douglas v. Buder’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 13 district · 112 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 244 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Jackson v. Virginia (1979), Superintendent Massachusetts Correctional Institution Walpole v. Hill (1985)
56 federal appellate · 13 district · 112 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Bouie v. City of Columbia · Thompson v. City of Louisville · Garner v. State of Louisiana Briscoe
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 244 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we conclude that the finding that petitioner had violated the conditions of his probation ... was so totally devoid of evidentiary support as to be invalid under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[when ... [an] unfor-seeable state-court construction of a criminal statute is applied retroactively to subject a person to eriminal liability for past conduct, the effect is to deprive him of due process of law in the sense of fair warning that his contemplated conduct constitutes a crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unforeseeable application of that interpretation . . . deprived petitioner of due process”
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.