United States Hopper v. Anton’s Empirical Analysis
91 F.3d 1261 · 1996
Citation profile
76 federal appellate · 41 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 242 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Harrison v. Westinghouse Savannah River Co. (1999), Cafasso v. General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. (2011)
76 federal appellate · 41 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
Relies on Hiatt v. Indiana State Student Assistance Commission · Warren III v. City of Carlsbad · Constellation Development Corp. v. Dowden · Reno v. Bossier Parish School Board
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 242 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is the false certification of compliance which creates liability when certification is a prerequisite to obtaining a government benefit.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any employee who is discharged, demoted, suspended, threatened, harassed, or in any other manner discriminated against in the terms and conditions of employment by his or her employer because of lawful acts done by the employee on behalf of the employee or others in furtherance of an action under this section, including investigation for, initiation of, testimony for, or assistance in an action filed or to be filed under this section, shall be entitled to all relief necessary to make the employee whole.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“plaintiff must be investigating matters which are calculated, or reasonably could lead, to a viable FCA action”
9 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.