Walker v. Hughes’s Empirical Analysis
558 F.2d 1247 · 1977
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably Shango v. Jurich (1982), Spruytte v. Walters (1985)
48 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 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 18 U.S.C. § 4042 (Prison Camera Reform Act of 2021) · 18 U.S.C. § 4081 · 18 U.S.C. § 4082 · 5 U.S.C. § 7501 (Civil Service Due Process Amendments)
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Morrissey v. Brewer · Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell · Goldberg v. Kelly
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We reject . . . the notion that any grievous loss visited upon a person by the State is sufficient to invoke the procedural protections of the Due Process Clause. In Board of Regents v. Roth, 408 U.S. 564 , 92 S.Ct. 2701 , 33 L.Ed.2d 548 (1972), a university professor was deprived of his job, a loss which was surely a matter of great substance, but because the professor had no property interest in his position, due process procedures were not required in connection with his dismissal. We there held that the determinating factor is the nature of the interest involved rather than its weight.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law [.]” U.S. Const, amend. V. The Fourteenth Amendment stipulates, in pertinent part, that "No state shall ... deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(i)n effect, Meachum equated the threshold test for the finding of a liberty interest with that for determining whether a property interest exists.”
2 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.