Humble v. Foreman’s Empirical Analysis
563 F.2d 780 · 1977
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2022 · most notably Dennis v. Sparks (1980), Dewey Dds v. Louisiana State Board of Dentistry (1980)
13 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Imbler v. Pachtman · Pierson v. Ray · Ramp v. St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company · Hill v. McClellan
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that Louisiana does not provide for tolling of the statute of limitations for such a claim during a party’s incarceration is irrelevant. Kissinger v. Foti, 544 F.2d 1257, 1258 (5th Cir. 1977); Knowles v. Carson, 419 F.2d 369, 370 (5th Cir. 1969).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““As private citizens they cannot be liable for conspiring with the other defendants who are entitled to immunity, since they are not conspiring with persons acting under color of law against whom a valid claim could be stated.””
1 later decision 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.