Goss v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1,441 federal appellate · 727 district · 1,451 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6,048 later decisions (158 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill (1985), Daniels v. Williams (1986)
1,441 federal appellate · 727 district · 1,451 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
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Morrissey v. Brewer · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Wolff v. McDonnell · Goldberg v. Kelly
Cited together with Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Goldberg v. Kelly · Morrissey v. Brewer · Perry v. Sindermann
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 6,048 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“oral or written notice of the charges against him and, if he denies them, an explanation of the evidence the authorities have and an opportunity to present his side of the story.”
180 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a] 10-day suspension from school ... may not be imposed in complete disregard of the Due Process Clause,”
113 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Paul v. Davis · Ingraham v. Wright“will depend on appropriate accommodation of the competing interests involved.”
94 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.