Montero v. Travis’s Empirical Analysis
171 F.3d 757 · 1999
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 11 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Huminski v. Corsones (2004), Walczyk v. Rio (2007)
12 federal appellate · 11 district · 5 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Neitzke v. Williams · Imbler v. Pachtman · Butz v. Economou · Stump v. Sparkman · Denton v. Hernandez
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“serve a quasi-adjudicative function in deciding whether to grant, deny or revoke parole.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Urquhart · King v. Simpson“[A] parole board official is absolutely immune from liability for damages when he decides to grant, deny, or revoke parole, because this task is functionally comparable to that of a judge.”
2 later decisions 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.