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← 212 USAPPDC 403 - Dellums v. Powell

Dellums v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis

1981

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
May 1987
most recently cited

1 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Imbler v. Pachtman · Butz v. Economou · Dennis v. Sparks · Deckert v. Independence Shares Corp. · Kissinger v. Halperin

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

  1. “). The Supreme Court has indicated that witnesses also deserve absolute immunity from suits alleging constitutional violations. See Butz v. Economou, supra, 438 U.S. at 512, 98 S.Ct. at 2913 (”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “Dellums v. Powell, supra, 490 F.Supp. at 74. The plaintiffs do not allege merely a malicious prosecution, but rather a malicious prosecution with intent to violate the First Amendment.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “in their results). One synthesis of modern authority suggests that the absolute immunity of prosecutors”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.