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constitutionally required hearing

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 339 U.S. 33 - Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath · 1950Most cited · 1,569 citing opinions

When the Constitution requires a hearing, it requires a fair one, one before a tribunal which meets at least currently prevailing standards of impartiality.

How often courts cite the case defining “constitutionally required hearing”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “constitutionally required hearing” — 1,560 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.