Gagan v. Norton’s Empirical Analysis
35 F.3d 1473 · 1994
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 27 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably David v. City And County Of Denver (1997), Scott v. Hern (2000)
21 federal appellate · 27 district · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Haines v. Kerner · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Imbler v. Pachtman
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We 'must accept all the well-pleaded allegations of the complaint as true and must construe them in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a prosecutor’s actions in contravening the authority of the judicial branch of state government in regard to the defense of a civil action”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“more distant a function is from the judicial process, the less likely absolute immunity will attach.”
2 later decisions 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.