Mennonite Board of Missions v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
438 federal appellate · 105 district · 1,568 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,754 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2025 · most notably Tulsa Professional Collection Services, Inc. v. Pope (1988), Dusenbery v. United States (2002)
438 federal appellate · 105 district · 1,568 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
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Shaffer v. Heitner · Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy
Cited together with Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Tulsa Professional Collection Services, Inc. v. Pope · Greene v. Lindsey · Schroeder v. City of New York · Mathews v. Eldridge
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 2,754 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Notice by mail or other means as certain to ensure actual notice is a minimum constitutional precondition to a proceeding which will adversely affect the liberty or property interests of any party, whether unlettered or well versed in commercial practice, if its name and address are reasonably ascertainable.”
185 later decisions quote this exact passage“reasonably calculated, under all the circumstances, to apprise interested parties of the pendency of the action and afford them an opportunity to present their objections.”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage“An elementary and fundamental requirement of due process in any proceeding which is to be accorded finality is notice reasonably calculated, under all the circumstances, to apprise interested parties of the pendency of the action and afford them an opportunity to present their objections.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.