property interest
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 408 U.S. 564 - Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · 1972Most cited · 28,461 citing opinions
To have a property interest in a benefit, a person clearly must have more than an abstract need or desire for it. He must have more than a unilateral expectation of it. He must, instead, have a legitimate claim of entitlement to it.
How often courts cite the cases defining “property interest”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “property interest” — 39,935 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1972–1972
A person's interest in a benefit is a 'property' interest for due process purposes if there are such rules or mutually explicit understandings that support his claim of entitlement to the benefit and that he may invoke at a hearing.
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