113 Md. App. 291 - Simms v. Constantine’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably 122 Md. App. 76 - Lopata v. Miller (1998), 134 Md. App. 624 - Rauch v. McCall (2000)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Imbler v. Pachtman · Butz v. Economou · 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘we must assume the truth of all relevant and material facts that are well pleaded and all inferences which can reasonably be drawn from those pleadings. The complaint should not be dismissed unless it appears that no set of facts can be proven in support of the claim set forth therein.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In no sense can any investigative activity undertaken by [a prosecutor] or any legal advice given by them to the police commissioner, to the Mayor, or to anyone else be deemed to be a part of the judicial function of the State’s Attorney’s Office.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`ample protection to all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. (2008)
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.