Hafner v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
983 F.2d 570 · 1992
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably United States v. Smith (2006), Odetics Inc v. Storage Technology Corporation Visa International Service Association Inc Visa Usa Inc Crestar Bank Inc (1999)
24 federal appellate · 4 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 Graham v. Connor · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · City of Los Angeles v. Heller · Hampton v. Hanrahan · United States v. Webster
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“failure to object at the proper time will be overlooked on appeal only if exceptional circumstances exist such as when the error is so obvious or so serious that the public reputation and integrity of the judicial proceeding is impaired.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the district judge concludes that an inconsistent verdict reflects jury confusion or uncertainty, he or she has the duty to clarify the law governing the case and resubmit the verdict for a jury decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unexcused delay in objecting to the instruction precludes our consideration of that asserted error on the merits.”
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.