Nichols v. Eckert’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably McGinnis v. Stevens (1975), Wertz v. Southern Cloud Unified School District 334 (1975)
45 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
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Goldberg v. Kelly · Perry v. Sindermann · Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath · United Public Workers of America v. Mitchell
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” U.S.Const. amend. XIV, § 1 provides in part: “No state shall . . . deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law . . . .””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“'For [the due process] clause to apply there must be state action and the deprivation, of an individual interest of sufficient importance to warrant constitutional protection.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e conclude that appellants must be given the opportunity to present their own defense by testimony and other evidence.... A full judicial hearing is not necessary....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.