Fred Honaker v. Gary Smith’s Empirical Analysis
256 F.3d 477 · 2001
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Naeem v. McKesson Drug Co. (2006), Fox v. Hayes (2010)
23 federal appellate · 2 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 West v. Atkins · 66 Ill. 2d 85 - Public Finance Corp. v. Davis · 126 Ill. 2d 78 - McGrath v. Fahey · 154 Ill. 2d 1 - Kolegas v. Heftel Broadcasting Corp. · Gibson v. City of Chicago
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a result, acts by a state officer are not made under color of state law unless they are related in some way to the performance of the duties of the state office.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Judgment as a matter of law is proper only if a reasonable person could not find that the evidence supports a decision for a party on each essential element of the case, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the nonmovant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Graham v. Commonwealth Edison Co., 318 Ill.App.3d 736, 252 Ill.Dec. 320, 742 N.E.2d 858, 867 (2000). Yet, Illinois courts have found extreme and outrageous behavior to exist in the employer/employee context when the employer”
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.