Tower v. Glover’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
295 federal appellate · 67 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 822 later decisions (39 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Heck v. Humphrey (1994), Malley v. Briggs (1986)
295 federal appellate · 67 district · 75 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedGlover v. Tower (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Younger v. Harris · Allen v. McCurry · Imbler v. Pachtman · Pierson v. Ray
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 822 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an official was accorded immunity from tort actions at common law when the Civil Rights Act was enacted in 1871, the Court next considers whether § 1983's history or purposes nonetheless counsel against recognizing the same immunity in § 1983 actions.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Malley v. Briggs · Kimes v. Stone“engaged in a conspiracy with state officials to deprive another of federal rights.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“if a Federal District Court should abstain from deciding a section 1983 suit for damages stemming from an unlawful conviction pending collateral exhaustion of state-court attacks on the conviction itself.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.