Hope v. Pelzer’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2,043 federal appellate · 666 district · 123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6,257 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Pearson v. Callahan (2009), Brosseau v. Haugen (2004)
2,043 federal appellate · 666 district · 123 state decisions — followed in 24 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedHope v. Pelzer (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 242 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Estelle v. Gamble · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Farmer v. Brennan
Cited together with Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Pearson v. Callahan · Graham v. Connor · Mitchell v. Forsyth
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 6,257 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“officials can still be on notice that their conduct violates established law even in novel factual circumstances.”
296 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether plaintiff's allegations, if true, establish a constitutional violation.”
23 later decisions 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.