Gilbert v. Homar’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
319 federal appellate · 202 district · 260 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,359 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably John Alvin General Partner v. Jon B. Suzuki (2000), Jackson v. City of Columbus (1999)
319 federal appellate · 202 district · 260 state decisions — followed in 33 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Morrissey v. Brewer · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Parratt v. Taylor
Cited together with Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Mathews v. Eldridge · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Morrissey v. Brewer · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
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 1,359 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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.”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Due process is flexible and calls for such procedural protections as the particular situation demands.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage“pretermination process need only include oral or written notice of the charges, an explanation of the employer's evidence, and an opportunity for the employee to tell his side of the story”
12 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.