Hill v. Shobe’s Empirical Analysis
93 F.3d 418 · 1996
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Tesch v. County of Green Lake (1998), West Norris v. Waymire (1997)
20 federal appellate · 3 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Farmer v. Brennan · Parratt v. Taylor · Daniels v. Williams · Paul v. Davis
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“he had actual knowledge of impending harm which he consciously refused to prevent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[M]otor vehicle accidents caused by public officials or employees do not rise to the threshold of a constitutional violation actionable under § 1983, absent a showing that the official knew an accident was imminent but consciously and culpably refused to prevent it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no constitutional violation in conspiring to cover-up an action which does not itself violate the Constitution.”
1 later decision 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.