Lee v. Hutson’s Empirical Analysis
810 F.2d 1030 · 1987
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably United States v. Gates (1994), Swank v. Smart (1990)
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Parratt v. Taylor · Paul v. Davis · Bishop v. Wood
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here a state’s procedures governing the taking of property are not fundamentally unfair on their face, and where an adequate remedy exists under state law to correct alleged errors in the administration of those procedures, there can be no deprivation without procedural due process because all process ‘due’ has been afforded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[although procedural due process might be violated if a mechanism for correcting these alleged errors were not available, Georgia does provide avenues for redress of such claims_”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Swank v. Smart“[N]ot every wrong committed by a state actor rises to the level of a 'constitutional tort' sufficient to trigger a substantive due process violation.”
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.