Roberts v. Hollocher’s Empirical Analysis
664 F.2d 200 · 1981
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably United States v. Renville (1985), Rascon v. Hardiman (1986)
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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 Bates v. State Bar · Babich v. United States · Romano v. United States · Atlas Roofing Co. v. Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission · Hullum v. United States
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]tatements made for purposes of medical diagnosis or treatment and describing medical history, or past or present symptoms, pain, or sensations, or the inception or general character of the cause or external source thereof insofar as reasonably pertinent to diagnosis or treatment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Cross-examination may embrace any matter germane to direct examination, qualifying or destroying it, or tending to elucidate, modify, explain, contradict or rebut testimony given by the witness.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“child's age was a factor supporting admissibility and assuring trustworthiness”
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.