Douglas Gregory v. John J. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
500 F.2d 59 · 1974
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 12 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Stump v. Sparkman (1978), Ashelman v. Pope (1986)
84 federal appellate · 12 district · 7 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 Scheuer v. Rhodes · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Monroe v. Pape · Pierson v. Ray · Tenney v. Brandhove
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The decision to personally evict someone from a courtroom by the use of physical force is simply not an act of a judicial nature, and is not such as to require insulation in order that the decision be deliberately reached. A judicial act within the meaning of the doctrine may normally be corrected on appeal.” Id. at 64 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The decision to personally evict someone from a courtroom by the use of physical force is simply not an act of a judicial nature, and is not such as to require insulation in order that the decision be deliberately reached. ... More importantly, we cannot believe that the purpose of the judicial immunity doctrine— to promote ‘principled and fearless decision-making’ — will suffer in the slightest if it is held that judges who physically assault persons in their courtrooms have no automatic immunity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he right violated by an assault has been described as the right to be secure in one's person, and is grounded in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment”
2 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.