Chambers v. Stern’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2020
17 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 Myers v. Morris · Demoran v. Witt · Deitsch v. Tillery · McCutchen v. Huckabee · Battle v. Harris
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“determine as a matter of law whether Dr. Stern's actions were within the scope of his court-appointed capacity, and if so, his actions taken pursuant to the appointment are entitled to judicial immunity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. John v. Faitak · Chambers v. Stern“a court-appointed physician is entitled to judicial immunity so long as he is serving an integral part of the judicial process, by carrying out and acting within the scope of a court's order.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. Smith · John v. Faitak“[p]sychologists and other experts would be reluctant to accept appointments if they were subject to personal liability for actions taken in their official capacities.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. Smith · John v. Faitak
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.