Hobson v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
737 F.2d 1 · 1984
Citation profile
261 federal appellate · 113 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 566 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Memphis Community School District v. Stachura (1986), Herbert v. National Academy of Sciences (1992)
261 federal appellate · 113 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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. § 1982 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 44 U.S.C. § 3101 · 44 U.S.C. § 3314 · 5 U.S.C. § 552A (§ 3 of the Privacy Act of 1974)
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Butz v. Economou
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 566 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendants on notice of the nature of the claim and enable them to prepare a response and, where appropriate, a summary judgment motion.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conclusory allegations of unconstitutional motive.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The doctrine of fraudulent concealment does not come into play, whatever the lengths to which a defendant has gone to conceal the wrongs, if a plaintiff is on notice of a potential claim.”
8 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.