Sharon A. Prince v. Jan Hicks’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In Burns, two police officers investigating a shooting of two boys suspected that the mother had multiple personalities and may have been responsible for the crime. The two officers contacted the chief deputy prosecutor to inquire as to the legality of subjecting the mother to hypnosis. The prosecutor advised the police officers that they could proceed. After the hypnosis session, upon hearing the statements the mother had made, the prosecutor advised the officers that they “probably had probable cause” to arrest the mother. The Supreme Court held that “advising the police in the investigative phase of a criminal case is [not] so ‘intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process’ that it qualifies for absolute immunity.” The Court added, “it is incongruous to allow prosecutors to be absolutely immune from liability for giving advice to the police, but to allow police officers only qualified immunity for following the advice.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Harris v. Bornhorst

2. “After the [the child’s parents] contacted [the defendant], she and Defendant Ha-zelhurst, an Anderson County detective, undertook to perform an investigation of the circumstances surrounding the [parents’] complaints or, alternatively, performed no investigation or a grossly inadequate investigation. Prior to the establishment of any probable cause whatsoever for the arrest or charging of the Plaintiff with a crime, the Defendants knew or should have known that the Plaintiff had applied for an emergency protective custody order with the Juvenile Court for Knox County, Tennessee, were aware or should have been aware of the circumstances surrounding Plaintiffs taking physical custody of the child and were aware or should have been aware that there was no probable or justifiable cause to believe Plaintiff had committed or was committing a crime.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 6 F. Supp. 3d 730 - Buchanan v. Metz

3. “In her amended complaint, [plaintiff] claims that [the defendant] engaged in unconstitutional conduct when she “undertook to perform an investigation of the circumstances surrounding [the daughter and son-in-law’s] complaints or, alternatively, performed no investigation or a grossly inadequate investigation.” Because [the defendant] has failed to meet her burden to show that the alleged investigation or failure to investigate was intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process, the district court properly refused to dismiss the allegations contained in ¶ 13 of the amended complaint on absolute immunity grounds.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 6 F. Supp. 3d 730 - Buchanan v. Metz