Whiteside v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Moland v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office of Colorado (2004), Dee Enterprises v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office (2003)
30 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Wolff v. McDonnell · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ne of the important factors to consider when evaluating the nature of the private interest that will be affected by official action is the ‘degree of potential deprivation.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]ermination of [welfare] aid pending resolution of a controversy over eligibility may deprive an eligible recipient of the very means by which to live while he waits.”
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.