Springmen v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
122 F.3d 211 · 1997
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2018
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Imbler v. Pachtman · Burns v. Reed · Buckley v. Fitzsimmons
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]cts undertaken by a prosecutor in preparing for the initiation of judicial proceedings or for trial, and which occur in the course of his role as an advocate for the State, are entitled to the protections of absolute immunity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Our decision today is not a close one. While the Supreme Court has not extended absolute immunity to all legal advice by prosecutors, it has never hesitated to grant such immunity to prosecutors acting as Williams did here—in their core role as advocates for the state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“so intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process that it qualifies for absolute immunity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nero v. Mosby
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.