Hansen v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
619 F.2d 942 · 1980
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2015 · most notably Office of Personnel Management v. Richmond (1990), Schweiker v. Hansen (1981)
22 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 6532 · 42 U.S.C. § 402 (§ 202 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 553 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Hanna v. Plumer · Federal Crop Ins Corporation v. Merrill · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Mourning v. Family Publications Service, Inc.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“holding of estoppel under these circumstances is limited to the situation where (a) a procedural not a substantive requirement is involved and (b) an internal procedural manual or guide or some other source of objective standards of conduct exists and supports an inference of misconduct by a Government employee.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t ignores reality to expect that the Government will be able to 'secure perfect performance from its hundreds of thousands of employees scattered throughout the continent,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no fewer than eight circuits ... have stated that there are some circumstances in which the Government will be estopped,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.