Procopio v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
994 F.2d 325 · 1993
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Lofton v. Secretary of the Department of Children & Family Services (2004), Harris v. James (1997)
20 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Stanley v. Illinois · Carey v. Piphus · Maine v. Thiboutot · Olim v. Wakinekona · Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'If a right to a hearing is a liberty interest, and if due process accords the right to a hearing, then one has interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment to mean that the state may not deprive a person of a hearing without providing him with a hearing. Reductio ad absurdum.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Levin v. Childers · Hill v. Jackson“[n]otwithstanding the preference that state law grants to foster families seeking to adopt their foster children, this priority does not rise to the level of an entitlement or expectancy”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“both prudent and possible to synthesize the teachings of Suter with the court's prior precedents.”
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.