Hearn v. Hudson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2012
6 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Warth v. Seldin · Bell v. Wolfish · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Imbler v. Pachtman
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In addressing the compensation issue ... we must focus on the actual injury to the plaintiff.... That requires in the First Amendment area an inquiry into whether the activity of the plaintiff is susceptible of First Amendment protection; for if that activity was not protected or privileged, the plaintiff obviously cannot be deemed injured in his First Amendment interests when government forbids that activity.... Although overbreadth analysis may very well have afforded the plaintiff a good defense in criminal proceedings [footnote omitted], it is obvious that arresting him and charging him with violating the ordinance infringed none of his own personal First Amendment rights. He therefore can assert no right to compensation under the First Amendment under the circumstances presented here.”
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.