Dory v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
25 F.3d 81 · 1994
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Scotto v. Almenas (1998), Burns v. Morton (1998)
34 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Imbler v. Pachtman · Briscoe v. W · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Buckley v. Fitzsimmons
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“absolute immunity protects a prosecutor from § 1983 liability for virtually all acts, regardless of motivation, associated with his function as an advocate.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he immunity attaches to [the prosecutor's] function, not to the manner in which he performed it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“properly within the role of a prosecutor”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.