Hoffman v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Miller v. Gammie (2003), Matthews v. Evatt (1997)
52 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 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 Malley v. Briggs · Imbler v. Pachtman · Pierson v. Ray · Carnegie v. United States · Burns v. Reed
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was recognized at common law in 1871.... The courts that have accorded absolute immunity to social workers appear to have overlooked the necessary historical inquiry; none has seriously considered whether social workers enjoyed absolute immunity for their official duties in 1871. If they did not, absolute immunity is unavailable to social workers under § 1983. This all assumes, of course, that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“can ever function as prosecutors for purposes of § 1983 immunity analysis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Holloway v. Ohio
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.