Briggs v. Goodwin’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Younger v. Harris
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'integral part of the judicial process.' " 424 U.S. at 430, 96 S.Ct. at 995. Again, his "activities were intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process, and thus were functions to which the reasons for absolute immunity apply with full force.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“absolute immunity under Imbler extends only so far as necessary to protect a prosecutor's decision with respect to the initiation and conduct of particular cases”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“prosecutors enjoy absolute immunity for acts done in the performance of their official functions (which generally involve) the decision to initiate a criminal prosecution or the orchestration of an ensuing criminal trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Simons v. Bellinger
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.