Griffith v. Slinkard’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Imbler v. Pachtman (1976), Burns v. Reed (1991)
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 49 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Hunter v. Mathis · State v. Henning
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever duties of a judicial nature are imposed upon a public officer, the due execution of which depends upon his judgment, he is exempt from all responsibility by action for the motives which influence him and the manner in which said duties are performed. If corrupt, he may be impeached or indicted; but he cannot be prosecuted by an individual to obtain redress for the wrong which may have been done.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burns v. Reed“Is a prosecuting attorney an officer intrusted with the administration of justice?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Condon
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.