Hobley v. Burge’s Empirical Analysis
433 F.3d 946 · 2006
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably United States v. Frith (2006), Sandra T.E. v. South Berwyn School District 100 (2009)
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 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 Hickman v. Taylor · United States v. Pfizer Inc. · In re Special September 1978 Grand Jury · Maynard v. Nygren · United States v. Frederick
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a zone of privacy in which lawyers can analyze and prepare their client's case free from scrutiny or interference by an adversary.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Chen
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.