Barnes v. Winchell’s Empirical Analysis
105 F.3d 1111 · 1997
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Turner v. Scott (1997), Barrett v. Harrington (1997)
18 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Mitchell v. Forsyth · Pierson v. Ray · Stump v. Sparkman · Johnson v. Jones · Forrester v. White
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'nature' and 'function' of the act, not the 'act itself.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is justified 'by a long-settled understanding that the independent and impartial exercise of judgment vital to the judiciary might be impaired by exposure to potential damages liability.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]ven if a particular act is not a function normally performed by a judge, we are directed to 'look to the particular act's relation to a general function normally performed by a judge.' " Barnes, 105 F.3d at 1116 (quoting Mireles, 502 U.S. at 13, 112 S.Ct. at 288); see, e.g., Mireles, 502 U.S. at 12-13, 112 S.Ct. at 288-89 (examining the "nature”
2 later decisions 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.