Connecticut v. Doehr’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
217 federal appellate · 139 district · 260 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 914 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2023 · most notably United States v. Dixon (1993), United States v. James Daniel Good Real Property (1993)
217 federal appellate · 139 district · 260 state decisions — followed in 31 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPinsky v. Duncan (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2403
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Edelman v. Jordan · Fuentes v. Shevin · Berkemer v. McCarty · Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy
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 914 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“first, consideration of the private interest that will be affected by the prejudgment measure; second, an examination of the risk of erroneous deprivation through the procedures under attack and the probable value of additional or alternative safeguards; and third, ... principal attention to the interest of the party seeking the prejudgment remedy, with, nonetheless, due regard for any ancillary interest the government may have in providing the procedure or forgoing the added burden of providing greater protections.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“For a property owner like Doehr, attachment ordinarily clouds title; impairs the ability to sell or otherwise alienate the property; taints any credit rating; reduces the chance of obtaining a home equity loan or additional mortgage; and can even place an existing mortgage in technical default where there is an insecurity clause.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[E]ven the temporary or partial impairments to property rights that attachments, liens, and similar encumbrances entail are sufficient to merit due process protection.”
12 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.