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Azubuko v. Royal’s Empirical Analysis

443 F.3d 302 · 2006

Citation profile

84
cited by 84 later decisions
May 2019
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 6 district ·

Relationships

Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Neitzke v. Williams · Stump v. Sparkman · Mireles v. Waco · Antoine v. Byers & Anderson, Inc.

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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “will not be deprived of immunity because the action he [or she] took was in error, was done maliciously, or was in excess of his [or her] authority; rather, he [or she] will be subject to liability only when he [or she] has acted in the clear absence of all jurisdiction.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “A judicial officer in the performance of his [or her] duties has absolute immunity from suit and will not be liable for his [or her] judicial acts.”
    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.