Slotten v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
999 F.2d 333 · 1993
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2016
9 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 2001 (Agricultural Credit Act of 1987) · 12 U.S.C. § 2011 · 12 U.S.C. § 2013
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Barr v. Matteo · Westfall v. Erwin · Federal Land Bank of St Louis v. Briddy
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The federal government and its agents often rely on private parties for information necessary to execute governmental functions. When private parties are under a mandatory duty to supply such information, they are entitled to the government’s official immunity. Becker v. Philco Corp., 372 F.2d 771, 773-74 (4th Cir.), cert. denied, 389 U.S. 979 , 88 S.Ct. 408 , 19 L.Ed.2d 473 (1967) (Philco held immune from suits resulting from its reporting suspected security breaches to the government).”
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.