Roberson v. Mullins’s Empirical Analysis
29 F.3d 132 · 1994
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2015 · most notably Swint v. Chambers County Commission (1995), Negron-Gaztambide v. Hernandez-Torres (1994)
18 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Elrod v. Burns · Butz v. Economou
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the issues involved in the two rulings substantially overlap and review will advance the litigation or avoid further appeals”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A [local legislator] does not necessarily act in a legislative capacity when his participation in the action of the body takes the form of a vote; the action of the body must itself be legislative to make the member's act of voting legislative.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We need not, and do not, decide here whether a local governmental body, or the municipality for which it is the governing body, is ever entitled to absolute legislative immunity.”
1 later decision 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.