Vitek v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
838 federal appellate · 238 district · 875 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,120 later decisions (109 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Santosky v. Kramer (1982), Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill (1985)
838 federal appellate · 238 district · 875 state decisions — followed in 46 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. § 2281
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Warth v. Seldin · Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell
Cited together with Wolff v. McDonnell · Mathews v. Eldridge · Meachum v. Fano · Hewitt v. Helms · Morrissey v. Brewer
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 3,120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“can engender adverse social consequences to the individual”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“qualitatively different from the punishment characteristically suffered by a person convicted of crime.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“minimum [procedural] requirements [are] a matter of federal law, they are not diminished by the fact that the State may have specified its own procedures that it may deem adequate for determining the preconditions to adverse official action.”
15 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.