Hinnen v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
992 F.2d 140 · 1993
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Chaney v. Suburban Bus Division of the Regional Transportation Authority (1995), Ulichny v. Merton Community School District (2001)
15 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Illinois v. Gates · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · United States v. Leon
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.
“A right is not clearly established if officers of reasonable competence could disagree on the issue.”
2 later decisions 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.