22 F. App'x 480 - Fish v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025
1 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. § 1406 · 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 · McGore v. Wrigglesworth · Lillard v. Shelby County Board of Education · Foster v. Walsh · Turker v. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation & Corrections
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.
“in his capacity as court clerk performing a quasi-judicial function and, as such, is entitled to a grant of absolute immunity from a suit for monetary damages”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Haery v. Spaeth
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.