Hili v. Sciarrotta’s Empirical Analysis
140 F.3d 210 · 1998
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Scotto v. Almenas (1998), Dickson v. Ashcroft (2003)
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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 Pierson v. Ray · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Williams v. People of State of New York · Wood v. Strickland · United States v. Tucker
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer's judicial capacity ... unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[H]earsay information may unquestionably be used in the discretion of the sentencing judge and given such weight as appears in his discretion to be merited.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Judges performing judicial functions within their jurisdictions are granted absolute immunity. 1 ’). 2 .”
1 later decision 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.