Rogers v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2019
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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 Bennett v. Black
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A law enforcement officer’s role in initiating a prosecution is not identical to that of a private complainant, nor is the measure of his liability the same. Here we must distinguish between the issue of the “initiation” of a prosecution, which is essentially a question of the causal linkage between the defendant’s acts and the start of the criminal process, and the different issue of a police officer’s privilege for official acts which is not enjoyed by a private defendant. The extent of this privilege is unsettled, and since defendant does not invoke such a privilege, we express no view whether it would be available to him here. But on the issue of “initiation” there can be no doubt that defendant set the criminal law in motion against plaintiff here.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.