Benton v. Rhodes’s Empirical Analysis
586 F.2d 1 · 1978
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 528 F. Supp. 252 - Morabito v. Blum (1981), Soskin v. Reinertson (2004)
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Goldberg v. Kelly · Gateway Coal Co. v. United Mine Workers · Yee-Litt v. Richardson
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e find nothing in the Federal or State Constitutions giving prospective recipients of optional benefits a constitutional right to their perpetual existence,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) A statement of what action the State ... intends to take;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“matters of law and policy are not subject to any hearing requirements under the applicable regulations, whether the hearing be pre- or post-reduction”
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.