Hedin v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
355 F.3d 746 · 2004
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2023
4 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Robinson v. Shell Oil Co. · Johnson v. Home State Bank · Ratzlaf et Ux United States · Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare v. Davenport · Pennsylvania Department of Corrections v. Yeskey
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(f) Active service deemed active military service with respect to anti-discrimination laws Active service of commissioned officers of the [Public Health] Service shall be deemed to be active military service in the Armed Forces of the United States for purposes of all laws related to discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, ethnicity, age, religion, and disability.”
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.