Horstkoetter v. Department of Public Safety’s Empirical Analysis
159 F.3d 1265 · 1998
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 14 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably City of Monterey v. Del Monte Dunes at Monterey, Ltd. (1999), Sutton II v. Utah State School for the Deaf and Blind 1-5 1-5 (1999)
34 federal appellate · 14 district ·
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 · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Anderson v. Creighton · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n appellate court has an obligation to make an independent examination of the whole record in order to make sure that the judgment does not constitute a forbidden intrusion on the field of free expression.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the contours of the right [are] sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nder the terms of the policy itself, there was never any possibility of disciplinary action against the wives directly.”
3 later decisions 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.