Hoffman v. Reali’s Empirical Analysis
973 F.2d 980 · 1992
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation v. World University Inc., Santa Barbara Center Corporation (1992), Febus-Rodriguez v. Betancourt-Lebron (1994)
16 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 · Illinois v. Gates · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Spinelli 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the state is normally entitled to refuse to disclose the identity of a person who has furnished information relating to an investigation of a possible violation of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any materi al fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
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.