Hill v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
160 F.3d 469 · 1998
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2024
9 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Garrity v. State of New Jersey · Lefkowitz v. Turley · Gardner v. Broderick · Lefkowitz v. Cunningham · Uniformed Sanitation Men Association v. Commissioner of Sanitation of City of New York
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a practical matter, the majority's analysis impermissibly leaves public employees . . . uninformed and guessing as to how their statements may be used, what their constitutional rights are, and how to respond to ambiguous requests for statements, answers to questions, or polygraph examinations. I do not find this to be constitutionally allowable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a]s long as a public employer does not demand that the public employee relinquish the employee's constitutional immunity from prosecution, however, the employee can be required to either testify about performance of official duties or to forfeit employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he mere failure affirmatively to offer immunity is not an impermissible attempt to compel a waiver of immunity.”
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.