Hancock v. Hobbs’s Empirical Analysis
967 F.2d 462 · 1992
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Reese v. Herbert (2008), Sprague v. Thorn Americas, Inc. (1997)
15 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Batson v. Kentucky · Graham v. Connor · Powers v. Ohio · Whalen v. Roe
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The common law — as interpreted by United States courts in the light of reason and experience — governs a claim of privilege unless any of the following provides otherwise: • the United States Constitution; • a federal statute; or • rules prescribed by the Supreme Court. But in a civil case, state law governs privilege regarding a claim or defense for which state law supplies the rule of decision.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a continuing duty to make a seasonable supplementation to its original answers to any question asking for the identity of an expert witness expected to be called at trial, the subject matter on which the expert will testify and the substance of his testimony.” Hancock v. Hobbs, 967 F.2d 462 , 468 (11th Cir.1992). The defendants indicate that Reese”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reese v. Herbert“Federal common law does not recognize a psychiatrist-patient privilege”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ellison v. Hobbs
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.