right or privilege
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 402 U.S. 535 - Bell v. Burson · 1971Most cited · 4,283 citing opinions
entitlement subject to due process
relevant constitutional restraints limit state power to terminate an entitlement whether the entitlement is denominated a 'right' or a 'privilege.
How often courts cite the case defining “right or privilege”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “right or privilege” — 4,272 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case 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.