Doe v. Alger

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that an enrolled student at a public university who is dismissed for disciplinary reasons possesses no constitutionally-protected liberty interest
• stating that while a student rights policy “may not itself create enforceable contract rights, it may nevertheless bear on whether [the student] had an entitlement to continued enrollment”
• “Doe is not alleging that a state statute creates his property right, so Goss does not help him.”
• adequacy of process at the appellate stage of a student disciplinary proceeding
• “[The plaintiff] can cite no case in which the Supreme Court or Fourth Circuit has recognized a property right to continued enrollment in a public college or university—much less a case recognizing that the Commonwealth of Virginia has created such a right.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Malcolm Sheppard v. Visitors of VSU
  Fourth Circuit· 2021-04-02· cited 170×
• Doe v. Ohio State University
  S.D. Ohio· 2017-03-10· cited 17×

Cites

30 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ashcroft v. Iqbal
  Supreme Court· 2009-05-18· cited 149,772×
• Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly
  Supreme Court· 2007-05-21· cited 146,720×
• Mathews v. Eldridge
  Supreme Court· 1976-02-24· cited 16,859×
• Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 14,284×
• Morrissey v. Brewer
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 10,835×
• Perry v. Sindermann
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,238×
• Paul v. Davis
  Supreme Court· 1976-05-19· cited 4,836×
• Goss v. Lopez
  Supreme Court· 1975-01-22· cited 3,014×
• Ingraham v. Wright
  Supreme Court· 1977-04-19· cited 2,975×
• Edwards v. City of Goldsboro
  Fourth Circuit· 1999-05-14· cited 2,842×
• Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy
  Supreme Court· 1961-10-09· cited 2,289×
• Vitek v. Jones
  Supreme Court· 1980-03-25· cited 1,747×
• Wisconsin v. Constantineau
  Supreme Court· 1971-01-19· cited 1,666×
• Giarratano v. Johnson
  Fourth Circuit· 2008-03-25· cited 1,208×
• Coleman v. Maryland Court of Appeals
  Fourth Circuit· 2010-11-10· cited 1,149×
• Regents of the University of Michigan v. Ewing
  Supreme Court· 1985-12-12· cited 1,052×
• Board of Curators of the University of Missouri v. Horowitz
  Supreme Court· 1978-03-01· cited 911×
• Roman Zak v. Chelsea Therapeutics International
  Fourth Circuit· 2015-03-16· cited 672×
• Fayetteville Investors v. Commercial Builders, Incorporated American Casualty Company of Reading, Pennsylvania, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 1991-07-11· cited 602×
• St. John Dixon v. Alabama State Board of Education
  Fifth Circuit· 1961-08-04· cited 487×