Billington v. Underwood’s Empirical Analysis
613 F.2d 91 · 1980
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2017
7 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Wolff v. McDonnell · Goldberg v. Kelly · Armstrong v. Manzo · Arnett v. Kennedy
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'sufficiently specific ... to enable [the tenant] to prepare rebuttal evidence to introduce'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The very notion of a hearing, however informal, connotes that the decision maker will listen to the arguments of both sides before basing a decision on the evidence and legal rules adduced at the hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that he had been found ineligible for public housing because his 'previous housing records and habits indicate a detrimental effect on tenants and project environment'”
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.