James D. Sullivan v. T. Francis Kelleher’s Empirical Analysis
405 F.2d 486 · 1968
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 11 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably LaLonde v. Eissner (1989), McCray v. Maryland (1972)
20 federal appellate · 11 district · 8 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 Pierson v. Ray · Barr v. Matteo · Bradley v. Fisher · Pargoud 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Since the immunity accorded to judges ‘extends to other officers of government whose duties are related to the judicial process’ ... it follows that the defendant cannot be held personally liable for any defects in service of process, if indeed there were such defects . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the determination of nice questions of jurisdiction which as the Court pointed out in Bradley v. Fisher * * * can be `some of the most difficult and embarrassing' that a judicial officer may be called upon to consider and decide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“general jurisdiction over the subject matter”
1 later decision 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.