LaPlaca v. Lowery’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2024
4 district · 6 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 Torrey v. Field · Hanley v. United Steel Workers of America · Polidor v. Mahady · Vaughn v. Congdon · Nizinski v. Currington
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is a privilege not primarily designed for the protection of the judge, but for the protection of the public, by making the judges free, independent and fearless in the discharge of their duties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Politi v. Tyler“whether the lower court committed error in finding that the doctrine of judicial immunity sheltered the words complained of”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Politi v. Tyler“Vermont law has included a doctrine of judicial immunity which applies to judges, attorneys, and witnesses, since [1838.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Politi v. Tyler
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.