156 N.C. App. 371 - Campbell v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Corum v. University of North Carolina · In re Whitaker · 132 N.C. App. 556 - Price v. Davis · Moore v. City of Creedmoor
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a police officer is a public official who enjoys absolute immunity from personal liability for discretionary acts done without corruption or malice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.