Bush v. Rauch’s Empirical Analysis
38 F.3d 842 · 1994
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Dickerson v. Mcclellan (1996), Sammye R. Holloway v. Sally Brush Clermont County, Ohio (2000)
36 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Anderson v. Creighton · Kentucky v. Graham
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Quasi-judicial immunity extends to those persons performing tasks so integral or intertwined with the judicial process that these persons are considered an arm of the judicial officer who is immune.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the nature of the function performed, not the identity of the actor who performed it.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]s other circuits have held, [that] enforcing or executing a court order is intrinsically associated with a judicial proceeding.”
4 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.