Humann v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
696 F.2d 783 · 1983
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Martinez v. California · Rieser v. District of Columbia · Rieser v. District of Columbia
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“special relationship” as a relationship between the plaintiff and the third person who committed the wrongful act. For example, in Humann v. Wilson, 696 F.2d 783, 784 (10th Cir.1983) it was noted: “the Court considered the fact that the plaintiffs’ decedent did not stand in any special relationship to the parolee from which the parole officers might have inferred a special danger to her.”
2 later decisions 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.