Smith v. Garretto’s Empirical Analysis
147 F.3d 91 · 1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Zeller v. Consolini (2000), Giraldo v. Kessler (2012)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Imbler v. Pachtman
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]uch immunity ... extends to 'acts 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 advocate for the State.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anilao v. Spota“searching for the clues and corroboration that might give him probable cause to recommend that a suspect be arrested”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anilao v. Spota“in initiating a prosecution and in presenting the State's case.”
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.