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← 481 U.S. 704 - Hodel v. Irving

Hodel v. Irving’s Empirical Analysis

1987

Citation profile

468
cited by 468 later decisions
37
cited 37 times by the Supreme Court
18
states following
November 2022
most recently cited

167 federal appellate · 60 district · 60 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 468 later decisions (37 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2022 · most notably First English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. County of Los Angeles (1987), Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. v. Bonjorno (1990)

167 federal appellate · 60 district · 60 state decisions — followed in 18 states

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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.

Appellate journey

reviewedIrving v. Clark (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Relies on Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Singleton v. Wulff · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · New York v. Ferber · Members of the City Council of Los Angeles v. Taxpayers for Vincent

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 468 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a jurisdictional prerequisite to a federal court's deliberations,”
    14 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Wilkinson v. United States · Youpee v. Babbitt
  2. “In one form or another, the right to pass on property-to one's family in particular-has been part of the Anglo-American legal system since feudal times.”
    9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Rice v. Cayetano · Davis v. Guam
  3. “be deprived of ... property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Littlewolf v. Lujan · McAndrews ex rel. Iyanough Realty Trust v. Fleet Bank of Massachusetts, N.A.

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.