Thompson v. Huecker’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2011
13 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 Scheuer v. Rhodes · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Elrod v. Burns · Imbler v. Pachtman · Barr v. Matteo
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court must not only consider whether the particular activity should be charac terized as a discretionary function, but the court must also determine the degree of immunity or privilege afforded the officer. If the officer is entitled to absolute immunity, he is not liable so long as he acts within the general scope of his authority. If the officer is entitled to only a limited or qualified immunity, the officer is not liable if he acts in good faith. Under other circumstances, the public officer is privileged so long as his actions are reasonable under the circumstances. See Comment e to § 895D.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]t has been though in the end better to leave unredressed the wrongs by dishonest officers than to subject those who try to do their duty to the constant dread of retaliation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCollum v. Garrett“To impose tort liability would discourage public officers from undertaking plans to improve the efficiency of government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCollum v. Garrett
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.