McLallen v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
492 F.2d 1298 · 1974
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2000 · most notably Antoine v. Byers & Anderson, Inc. (1993), Slavin v. Curry (1978)
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 McCray v. Maryland · Barnes v. Dorsey
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This Court has held that court functionaries such as clerks are not clothed in judicial immunity because their duties are ministerial, not discretionary, in nature. Barnes v. Dorsey, 480 F.2d 1057 (8th Cir. 1973). Judicial immunity is only granted to non-judicial officials who, like judges, must not be unduly inhibited to exercise discretionary authority by the constant fear of personal liability for damages. * * * Reporters are like clerks, in that their duties are ministerial in nature and thus are not protected by quasi-judicial immunity.” 3”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“can show that he was acting pursuant to his lawful authority and following in good faith the instructions and rules of the Court and was not in derogation of those instructions or rules...”
3 later decisions 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.