Mark Patton v. Lynn Jacob’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Oestreicher v. Alienware Corp. (2009), 290 F. Supp. 2d 1158 - Van Winkle v. Allstate Insurance (2003)
5 district · 2 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
Relies on Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Imbler v. Pachtman · Butz v. Economou · Briscoe v. W · Reno v. Kim Ho Ma
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“applying our perception of Arizona law, we hold that witness immunity does not bar an action for breach of contract when, as in this case, the witness participated voluntarily in a quasi-judicial proceeding. This ruling will not hinder “the resolution of disputes and the ascertainment of truth,” [citation omitted] because witnesses can be compelled to testify as needed, which would then trigger immunity protection.”
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.