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Hoston v. Silbert’s Empirical Analysis

681 F.2d 876 · 1982

Citation profile

36
cited by 36 later decisions
2
states following
August 2019
most recently cited

18 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Arbour v. Jenkins (1990), Trevino v. Ortega (1998)

18 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions

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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 United States v. Muniz · Lyon v. Carey · International Distributing Corporation, a Maryland Corporation v. American District Telegraph Company, International Distributing Corporation, a Maryland Corporation v. American District Telegraph Company, a West Virginia Corporation v. George E. Hines, Walter T. Smith, Jr · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. Reddick · Dilli v. Johnson

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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “foreseeability must be combined with a purpose to further the employer's interest”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “investigative or law enforcement officer”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent

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.