Walters v. National Assn. of Radiation Survivors’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
278 federal appellate · 104 district · 186 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 972 later decisions (66 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Wheat v. United States (1988), Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission (1994)
278 federal appellate · 104 district · 186 state decisions — followed in 32 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. § 1252 · 28 U.S.C. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 1254 · 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 2101 · 28 U.S.C. § 2284
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Morrissey v. Brewer · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Gideon v. Wainwright
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 972 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a flexible concept that varies depending on the importance attached to the interest at stake and the particular circumstances under which the deprivation may occur.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“First, the private interest that will be affected by the official action; second, the risk of an erroneous deprivation of such interest through the procedures used, and the probable value, if any, of additional or substitute procedural safeguards; and finally, the Government’s interest, including the function involved and the fiscal and administrative burdens that the additional or substitute procedural requirement would entail.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“procedural due process rules are shaped by the risk of error inherent in the truth-finding process as applied to the generality of cases, not the rare exceptions.”
9 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.