Hermann v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently July 2023
1 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, and Melody Deshaney,s v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, et al. · Ross v. United States · Daughenbaugh v. City of Tiffin · Sheets v. Mullins
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the officers knew nothing of [the attempted rescuer's] purported qualifications,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the police knew that the volunteer divers were trained civilian divers,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no constitutional right to state-provided rescue services,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.