Sterling Maurice Williams v. Alfonso C. Sepe’s Empirical Analysis
487 F.2d 913 · 1973
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 1997
11 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Bradley v. Fisher · Pargoud v. United States · State Ex Rel. Giblin v. Sullivan · James D. Sullivan v. T. Francis Kelleher
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"While it may be true that the procedural irregularities would necessitate a reversal of a conviction if one had been obtained on the facts of this case, see, e.g., State ex rel. Giblin v. Sullivan, 1946, 157 Fla. 496 , 26 So.2d 509 , the test for the abrogation of judicial immunity is whether there is a clear absence of all jurisdiction over the subject matter. Bradley v. Fisher, 1872, 13 Wall. 335 , 80 U.S. 335 , 20 L.Ed. 646 . The policy underlying the doctrine requires that its application not depend on the determination of `nice questions of jurisdiction.' Sullivan v. Kelleher, 1 Cir.1968, 405 F.2d 486, 487 . The defects in the procedure employed in this case will not support a conclusion that there was a clear absence of all jurisdiction."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... Judge Sepe failed to comply with the procedure for prosecuting an indirect contempt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“written notice of the criminal contempt charged”
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.