Eldridge v. Bouchard’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2018
5 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Parratt v. Taylor · Goldberg v. Kelly · Dandridge v. Williams
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only if the `varying treatment of different groups is so unrelated to the achievement of any combination of legitimate purposes’ that this court can only conclude that [the defendant’s] actions were irrational.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. HCMF Corp. v. Allen“the plaintiffs do not have a federally recognized fundamental right to intrastate travel”
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.