Hufford v. Rodgers’s Empirical Analysis
912 F.2d 1338 · 1990
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Manders v. Lee (2003), Scott v. E O'Grady (1992)
26 federal appellate · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Edelman v. Jordan · United States v. Harriss · Ford Motor Co. v. Department of Treasury · Gregory Lumber Co. 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no provision of Florida law provides state funds to a Florida sheriff to satisfy a judgment against the sheriff.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] sheriff is a 'county official,' and, as such, is an integral part of the 'county'....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“No provision of this section, or of any other section of the Florida Statutes, whether read separately or in conjunction with any other provision, shall be construed to waive the immunity of the state or any of its agencies from suit in federal court, as such immunity is guaranteed by the Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution of the United States”
1 later decision 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.