Hansen v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
885 F.2d 642 · 1989
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 18 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 177 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Starr v. Baca (2011), Redman v. County of San Diego (1991)
57 federal appellate · 18 district · 6 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Graham v. Connor · Malley v. Briggs
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 177 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“implements a policy so deficient that the policy itself is a repudiation of constitutional rights and is the moving force of the constitutional violation.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a sufficient causal connection between the supervisor's wrongful conduct and the constitutional violation.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“including the severity of the crime at issue, whether the suspect poses an immediate threat to the safety of the officers or others, and whether he is actively resisting arrest or attempting to evade arrest by flight.”
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.