Clark v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis
366 F.2d 678 · 1966
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 18 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Russillo v. Scarborough (1991), Littleton v. Berbling (1972)
82 federal appellate · 18 district · 11 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 Hans v. State of Louisiana · Parden v. Terminal Railway of Alabama State Docks Department · Theard v. United States · Beck v. United States · Williams v. Fanning
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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he key to the immunity previously held to be protective to the prosecuting attorney is that the acts, alleged to have been wrongful, were committed by the office in the performance of an integral part of the judicial process. (Citation omitted.) As an arm of the Washington Supreme Court in connection with disciplinary proceedings, the Bar Association is an “integral part of the judicial process” and is therefore entitled to the same immunity which is afforded to prosecuting attorneys in that state.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It has been established since Hans v. Louisiana, 134 U.S. 1 , 10 S.Ct. 504 , 33 L.Ed. 842 , that a state is immune from federal court suits brought by its own citizens as well as by citizens of another state. This immunity is not affected by the fact that the case may be one arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States. Parden et al. v. Terminal Railway of Alabama State Docks Dept, et al., 377 U.S. 184, 186 , 84 S.Ct. 1207 , 12 L.Ed. 2d 233 ; Skokomish Indian Tribe v. France, 9 Cir., 269 F.2d 555, 560 . A state may waive such immunity. State of Missouri et al. v. Fiske et al., 290 U.S. 18, 24 , 54 S.Ct. 18 , 78 L.Ed. 145 . There is nothing in the record before us, however, to indicate that the State of Washington waived its immunity from this kind of suit, or this particular suit, in federal court.” Clark v. State of Washington, 366 F.2d 678, 680 (9th Cir. 1966).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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