Hansen v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
948 F.2d 397 · 1991
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Marshall v. Allen (1993), Norse v. City of Santa Cruz (2010)
17 federal appellate ·
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 · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Powell v. McCormack · Tenney v. Brandhove · Forrester v. White
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“presents a curious situation. If a district court denies summary judgment because it finds a factual dispute, and the appellate court agrees, then the appellate court is forced to hold that it lacks jurisdiction. As a result, it is impossible for an appellate court to affirm such a ruling. Though curious, this situation makes sense. Dismissing the appeal is equivalent to affirming the denial; either way, the case and the issue proceed to trial. The situation seems curious only because we do not often face it outside the context of immunities, as denials of summary judgment are not ordinarily appeal-able.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hill v. Shelander“We look only to the function [Mayor] Bennett was performing when he ejected Hansen. We apply this functional approach even when evaluating conduct that takes place within a meeting which includes some legislative business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a district court's denial of qualified immunity, to the extent that it turns on an issue of law, is an appealable 'final decision' within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 1291.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gorman v. Robinson
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.