Hanson v. Hoffmann’s Empirical Analysis
628 F.2d 42 · 1980
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 17 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Chisholm v. United States Postal Service (1981), Evans v. McDonald's Corp. (1991)
29 federal appellate · 17 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
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Perry v. Sindermann
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nless a defendant is prejudiced on the merits by a change in legal theory, a plaintiff is not bound by the legal theory on which he or she originally relied.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he liberal concepts of notice pleading embodied in the Federal Rules do not require the pleading of legal theories.”
1 later decision 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.