Ward v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
494 F.3d 929 · 2007
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Riggins v. Goodman (2009), McBeth v. Himes (2010)
6 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 state decisions
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. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · County of Sacramento v. Lewis · Gilbert v. Homar · Ernest Medina v. Michael Cram - Ralph Bruning City of Colorado Springs Loren Kramer
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"a plaintiff must do more than show that the government actor intentionally or recklessly caused injury to the plaintiff by abusing or misusing government power. The plaintiff must demonstrate a degree of outrageousness and a magnitude of potential or actual harm that is truly conscience shocking. This is a high level of outra geousness."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“For reasons that are opaque to us, both parties focus their procedural due process arguments on the provisions of the [state] statutes and [state] regulations that provide for hearings. They disagree whether the statutes and regulations require a hearing when, as in the instant case, the [state agency] does not plan to revoke or suspend a child care provider’s license.... However, these arguments are a red herring; the question raised in a procedural due process challenge is whether the level of process afforded to the [plaintiffs] passed constitutional muster, not whether [the state agency] followed statutes or regulations. A failure to comply with state or local procedural requirements does not necessarily constitute a denial of due process; the alleged violation must result in a procedure which itself falls short of standards derived from the Due Process Clause.”
1 later decision 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.”
1 later decision 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.