Dawson v. Newman’s Empirical Analysis
419 F.3d 656 · 2005
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Loubser v. Thacker (2006), Smith v. Gomez (2008)
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Pierson v. Ray · Butz v. Economou · Forrester v. White · Burns v. Reed · Steven J. Holman and Karen L. Holman v. State of Indiana and Indiana Department of Transportation
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Dawson's claims against Judge Newman are premised upon an alleged violation of what Dawson contends is a personal statutory duty of the judge, which necessarily involves an act or omission by the judge as part of the judicial case processing function. Assuming arguendo that Dawson's premise is correct (that the statute imposes a personal duty on the judge), it follows that the acts or omissions in the performance of that judicial duty are immunized. To the extent that the statute imposes a duty on the judge at all, that duty implicates the judge's role as judge rather than as an administrative or clerical officer.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“involves the exercise of discretion or judgment, or is rather a ministerial act which might as well have been committed to a private person as to a judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kowalski v. Boliker“These include, for example, acts associated with the decision to grant, revoke, or deny parole, or the signing of an arrest warrant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tobey v. Chibucos
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.