Yaselli v. Goff’s Empirical Analysis
12 F.2d 396 · 1926
Citation profile
132 federal appellate · 23 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 272 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably Scheuer v. Rhodes (1974), Imbler v. Pachtman (1976)
132 federal appellate · 23 district · 43 state decisions — followed in 23 states
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 Bradley v. Fisher · Spalding v. Vilas · Randall v. Brigham · Griffith v. Slinkard · Hunckel v. Voneiff
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 272 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In our opinion the law requires us to hold that a special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, in the performance of the duties imposed upon him by law, is immune from a civil action for malicious prosecution based on an indictment and prosecution, although it results in a verdict of not guilty rendered by a jury. The immunity is absolute, and is grounded on principles of public policy.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the exercise of their judicial functions”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * a public office is an agency for the state, the duties of which involve in their performance the exercise of some portion of the sovereign power, either great or small. The rule of responsibility of a public officer, as held by the courts, is said to be that, if the duty which the official authority imposes upon an officer is a duty to the public, a failure to perform it, or an erroneous performance, is regarded as an injury to the public, and not as one to the individual. It is to be redressed in some form of public prosecution, and not by a private person who conceives himself specially injured. * * * ””
3 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.