United States v. Hoffer’s Empirical Analysis
869 F.2d 123 · 1989
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2010
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1114
Relies on Glasser v. United States · United States v. Feola · Jizmejian v. United States · Wenzler v. Pitchess · Solina 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“acting within the scope of what the agent is employed to do ... or was engaging in a personal frolic”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here is no bright-line test to define performance of . . . official duties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties.”
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.