Jerome B. Hansen v. John C. Ahlgrimm and Harley Brown’s Empirical Analysis
520 F.2d 768 · 1975
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2013 · most notably Dennis v. Sparks (1980), Supreme Court of Virginia v. Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. (1980)
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Golden v. Zwickler · United States v. Price · Public Affairs Associates, Inc. v. Rickover · Red Ball Motor Freight, Inc. v. Shannon · Hall v. Garson
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(I)t has been frequently stated that allegations of conspiracy between private persons and public officials who are themselves immune from liability under the facts alleged are insufficient to establish liability of the private persons under color of state law for purposes of the Civil Rights Act. Brown v. Dunne, 409 F.2d 341 , 343-44 (7th Cir. 1969); Sykes v. State of California Dept. of Motor Vehicles, 497 F.2d 197 , 202 (9th Cir. 1974); Hill v. McClellan, 490 F.2d 859, 860 (5th Cir. 1974); Haldane v. Chagnon, 345 F.2d 601 , 604-05 (9th Cir. 1965).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the common law, as modified and changed by the Constitution and statutes of the State wherein the court having jurisdiction of [the Section 1983 action] is held____” Limitations periods are universally defined by statute rather than common law, so it is to such statutes this Court addresses itself. 2 . Under Section 1988 a borrowing statute may be ignored if "inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e are not presented with a case in which declaratory judgment will serve some purpose, such as a declaration of the unconstitutionality of certain enumerated statutes authorizing the complained of action---- Rather, from the face of the pleadings, we conclude that the declaratory relief portion of plaintiffs prayer is no more than an implicit predicate to his request for damages. Since we have previously found Judge Ahlgrimm to be immune from the damage claim asserted, we fail to ascertain any remaining case or controversy to be resolved by declaratory judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.