Hibma v. Odegaard’s Empirical Analysis
769 F.2d 1147 · 1985
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Argento v. Village of Melrose Park (1988), Blue Cross & Blue Shield United of Wisconsin v. Marshfield Clinic (1995)
32 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Carey v. Piphus · Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co.
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the deputies' actions were unquestionably designed to further their own objectives of escaping punishment for their own wrongdoing, they also were designed to further the objectives of Sawyer County. . . . Cameron and Bell [ 536 F. Supp. 462 (E.D. Wis. 1982)] recognize that sec. 895.46 may require indemnification for actions which are not intended to benefit the employer when those actions further the objectives of the employment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“test for scope. Id. at 478 . The district court concluded Grady had dual motives. His actions were designed to further his own objective of escaping punishment and to further his employer's objectives.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“He was performing his duties as a police officer but used quite improper methods of carrying out those duties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.