Perry v. Meikle’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 1999 · most notably 172 Cal. App. 2d 756 - Agnew v. Parks (1959), 12 Cal. 3d 180 - People v. Rhodes (1974)
30 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 Pargoud v. United States · Bowman v. Wohlke · Turpen v. Booth · More v. Finger · 35 Cal. App. 241 - Platz v. Marion
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Notwithstanding the apparent effort of plaintiff to keep from alleging that defendant Twain Michelsen was a judge of the superior court and was acting as such in the proceeding complained of, it is clear from the complaint and the exhibits that Judge Michelsen was acting as superior judge in a matter over which he had jurisdiction, that the proceeding was regular in all respects, and that there would be no basis for any action against him, even if he were not entitled to immunity from civil liability under the well-established and sound rule of public policy so well expressed by Justice Brewer of the IT. S. Supreme Court, sitting as a circuit justice, in Cooke v. Bangs, 31 F. 640 ) 642, as follows: ‘With respect to all judicial officers,—justices of the peace, as well as judges of the higher courts,—the settled law of the supreme court of the United States, and I think the plain intimation of the supreme court of this state, is that, where they act within their jurisdiction, they are not amenable to any civil action for damages. No matter what their motives may be, they cannot be inquired into.’ “And in Turpén v. Booth, 56 Cal. 65, 69 [ 38 Am.Rep. 48 ], our Supreme Court quoted with approval the following language of Justice Field in Bradley v. Fisher, 13 Wall. (U.S.) 335 [ 20 L.Ed. 646 ] : ‘ [J]udges of courts of record of superior or general jurisdiction are not liable to civil actions for their judicial acts, even when such acts are in excess of their jurisdiction, and ar”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is the wrong done and the damage suffered pursuant to the conspiracy which is the cause of action, rather than the conspiracy itself.”
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.