procedural due process
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
license suspension
procedural due process will be satisfied by an inquiry limited to the determination whether there is a reasonable possibility of judgments in the amounts claimed being rendered against the licensee.
How the Supreme Court has restated “procedural due process”
Each Supreme Court definition of “procedural due process,” sized by how often later courts cited it. “Change” is measured by wording overlap with earlier definitions — a rough signal, not a semantic judgment.
How often courts cite the cases defining “procedural due process”
Court decisions citing the 4 opinions that defined “procedural due process” — 7,249 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 4 definitions, chronological · 1938–1971
- ORIGINAL
When the rate-making agency of the state gives a fair hearing, receives and considers the competent evidence that is offered, affords opportunity through evidence and argument to challenge the result, and makes its determination upon evidence and not arbitrarily, the requirements of procedural due process are met, and the question that remains for this Court, or a lower federal court, is not as to the mere correctness of the method and reasoning adopted by the regulating agency but whether the rates it fixes will result in confiscation.
A judgment obtained in violation of procedural due process is not entitled to full faith and credit when sued upon in another jurisdiction.
procedural due process, which includes fair notice of the charge
disbarment