John Madison and Kim Madison v. Richard E. Gerstein and E. Wilson Purdy’s Empirical Analysis
440 F.2d 338 · 1971
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2004 · most notably Misty Kingsland v. City of Miami (2004), Baskin v. Parker (1979)
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 · Tenney v. Brandhove · Bradley v. Fisher · Pargoud v. United States · William J. Bauers, Jr. v. Herbert T. Heisel, Jr
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a law enforcement officer, defendant . . . does not enjoy the cloak of immunity of the quasi-judicial prosecuting attorney.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Such doctrine is not for the benefit of the defendant, but for the benefit of the public whose interests it is that quasi judicial officers should be at liberty to exercise their functions with independence and without fear of consequence.” Id. at 340 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McNamara v. Hawks
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.