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McClelland v. Massinga’s Empirical Analysis

786 F.2d 1205 · 1986

Citation profile

42
cited by 42 later decisions
5
states following
February 2020
most recently cited

12 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably A.H. Robins Co. v. Piccinin (1986), Callaway v. Commissioner (2000)

12 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions

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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 26 U.S.C. § 6402 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Parratt v. Taylor · Goldberg v. Kelly · Fuentes v. Shevin

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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “due process is not 'a technical conception' of 'inflexible procedures' (citing Cafeteria Workers v. McElroy, 367 U.S. 886 , 895, 81 S.Ct. 1743, 1748-49, 6 L.Ed.2d 1230 (1961) nor is it 'a mechanical instrument' or 'yardstick'; it is rather 'a delicate process of adjustment' and of a balancing of interests in which it is recognized 'that what is unfair in one situation may be fair in another ....' " In particular, it is important to recognize that the notice and hearing is not "always require[d] ... prior to the initial deprivation of property”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “is entitled to full administrative hearing with panoply of rights attaching to such a hearing, and should he be dissatisfied with the administrative decision is entitled to a judicial review”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “[T]he mere filing of a joint tax return by a husband and wife does not render the property taxed or the tax paid joint property.”
    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.