Martinez v. Hooper’s Empirical Analysis
148 F.3d 856 · 1998
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2022
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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 Conley v. Gibson · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · McNamara v. County of San Diego Department of Social Services
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t goes without saying that police misconduct is a matter of public concern.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether there is any possible interpretation of the complaint under which it can state a claim.”
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.