Gill v. Ripley’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Attorney Grievance Commission v. Sheridan (1999), D'AOUST v. Diamond (2012)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 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 18 U.S.C. § 242 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Imbler v. Pachtman · Butz v. Economou · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as a matter of Maryland common law, ... prosecutors enjoy absolute immunity with respect to claims arising from their role in the judicial process[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“arose initially as an adjunct to the doctrine of judicial immunity,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“that are integral to the judicial process.”
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.