Alvarez v. Snyder’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
March 2004
most recently cited
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Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Most-quoted passages
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“would be found if, for example, a probate judge, with jurisdiction over only wills and estates, should try a criminal case. On the other hand, if a judge of a criminal court should convict a defendant of a nonexistent crime, he would merely be acting in excess of his jurisdiction and would be immune.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It has long been recognized that few doctrines were more solidly established at common-law than the immunity of judges from liability for damages for acts committed within their judicial discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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