McConico v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The McConico Court held that '[b]ecause [the district attorney] has not yet presented the issue of prosecutorial immunity to the trial court, he has clearly not met that burden. Thus, any consideration of the issue of prosecutorial immunity is premature , and this court will not affirm that portion of the trial court's judgment dismissing the malicious prosecution claim on that ground at this point in the proceedings.' [ 204 So.3d at 418 ] (emphasis added)."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. D.A.R. v. R.E.L. · D.A.R. v. R.E.L.

2. “'of showing that [absolute] immunity is justified for the function in question.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. D.A.R. v. R.E.L. · D.A.R. v. R.E.L.

3. “'Where an appellant fails to cite any authority, we may affirm, for it is neither our duty nor function to perform all the legal research for an appellant.' Gibson v. Nix , 460 So.2d 1346 , 1347 (Ala. Civ. App. 1984).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 240 So. 3d 602 - Driggers v. Driggers