Cosby v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
843 F.2d 967 · 1988
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Thomas v. Cook County Sheriff's Department (2009), Fleury v. Clayton (1988)
19 federal appellate · 2 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 19 U.S.C. § 2101 (Customs and Trade Act of 1990) · 19 U.S.C. § 2311 · 26 U.S.C. § 3304 (Federal Unemployment Tax Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1302 (§ 1102 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 503 (§ 303 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 902 (§ 702 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Mathews v. Eldridge · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Goldberg v. Kelly
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is universally agreed that adequate notice lies at the heart of due process. Unless a person is adequately informed of the reasons for denial of a legal interest, a hearing serves no purpose — and resembles more a scene from Kafka than a constitutional process.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.'”
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.