Hafer v. Melo

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a defendant official acting in his official capacity receives the same immunity as the government agency to which he belongs
• holding that the Eleventh Amendment provides no shield for a state official confronted by a claim that he deprived another of a federal right
• holding that state officers “sued in their personal capacity ... fit comfortably within the statutory term ‘person.’ ”
• holding that suits against state officials in their official capacities are suits against the state
• holding that suits against state officials in their official capacities are suits against the state
• holding that individual capacity suit against Auditor General of Pennsylvania was not barred by Eleventh Amendment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1,324 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1997-03-03· cited 2,323×
• Vermont Agency of Natural Resources v. United States Ex Rel. Stevens
  Supreme Court· 2000-05-22· cited 1,463×
• Shawna Hartmann v. California Department of Corr.
  Ninth Circuit· 2013-02-19· cited 1,041×
• Wyatt v. Cole
  Supreme Court· 1992-05-18· cited 921×
• Constantine v. Rectors and Visitors of George Mason University
  Fourth Circuit· 2005-06-13· cited 897×
• Baker v. Putnal
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-02-15· cited 805×
• Patterson v. County of Oneida
  Second Circuit· 2004-07-15· cited 784×
• Brown v. Montoya
  Tenth Circuit· 2011-11-08· cited 782×
• Renee Palakovic v. John Wetzel
  Third Circuit· 2017-04-14· cited 771×
• Betts v. New Castle Youth Development Center
  Third Circuit· 2010-09-13· cited 717×
• James Maben v. Troy Thelen
  Sixth Circuit· 2018-04-03· cited 673×
• Joseph L. Pena v. Booth Gardner Lawrence Kincheloe Warden John Lambert Amos Reed
  Ninth Circuit· 1992-10-09· cited 628×
• Henrietta D. v. Bloomberg
  Second Circuit· 2003-06-09· cited 583×
• Lore v. City of Syracuse
  Second Circuit· 2012-02-02· cited 573×
• Gutierrez De Martinez v. Lamagno
  Supreme Court· 1995-06-14· cited 571×
• Bryant v. CEO DeKalb Co.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2009-07-31· cited 545×
• Josh Brewington v. Ben Keener
  Eighth Circuit· 2018-08-30· cited 473×
• Kulwicki v. Dawson
  Third Circuit· 1992-07-02· cited 452×
• Wolfe v. Strankman
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-12-14· cited 439×
• Porter v. Jones
  Ninth Circuit· 2003-02-06· cited 432×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-06· cited 41,449×
• Harlow v. Fitzgerald
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-24· cited 22,846×
• Will v. Michigan Department of State Police
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-15· cited 14,197×
• Scheuer v. Rhodes
  Supreme Court· 1974-04-17· cited 13,385×
• Kentucky v. Graham
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-28· cited 11,385×
• Imbler v. Pachtman
  Supreme Court· 1976-03-02· cited 7,274×
• Edelman v. Jordan
  Supreme Court· 1974-05-13· cited 6,517×
• Monroe v. Pape
  Supreme Court· 1961-02-20· cited 4,784×
• Lugar v. Edmondson Oil Co.
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-25· cited 4,631×
• Davis v. Passman
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-05· cited 3,039×
• Forrester v. White
  Supreme Court· 1988-01-12· cited 2,252×
• Wells v. Brown
  Sixth Circuit· 1989-12-12· cited 2,128×
• Burns v. Reed
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-30· cited 1,988×
• United States v. Bass
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 1,739×
• Laura Nix v. Bobby Norman, Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training and the State of Arkansas
  Eighth Circuit· 1989-07-19· cited 336×
• Barbara Conner v. Rudy G. Reinhard
  Seventh Circuit· 1988-05-19· cited 220×
• Ricky Houston v. Allen Reich, Harold Dean McHam the Excise Board of Choctaw County, Oklahoma, and the City of Hugo, Oklahoma
  Tenth Circuit· 1991-05-07· cited 92×
• Jonathan Cowan, ph.d. v. University of Louisville School of Medicine Leah Dickstein, M.D. Donald Kmetz, M.D. And Other Unknown Persons
  Sixth Circuit· 1990-05-24· cited 52×
• Lundgren v. Mcdaniel
  Eleventh Circuit· 1987-04-13· cited 37×

Other cases named Hafer v. Melo

10 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Hafer v. Melo
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-28· cited 8×
• Hafer v. Melo
  Supreme Court· 1991-02-25
• Hafer v. Melo
  Supreme Court· 1991-02-25
• Hafer v. Melo
  Supreme Court· 1991-04-22
• Hafer v. Melo
  Supreme Court· 1991-04-22
• Hafer v. Melo
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-28
• Hafer v. Melo
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-03
• Hafer v. Melo
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-03
• Hafer v. Melo
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-17
• Hafer v. Melo
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-17