Mireles v. Waco’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
340 federal appellate · 313 district · 207 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,351 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Antoine v. Byers & Anderson, Inc. (1993), McPherson v. Kelsey (1997)
340 federal appellate · 313 district · 207 state decisions — followed in 26 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
reviewedWaco v. Baltad (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Pierson v. Ray · Butz v. Economou · Stump v. Sparkman
Cited together with Stump v. Sparkman · Forrester v. White · Pierson v. Ray · Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Imbler v. Pachtman
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 2,351 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not overcome by allegations of bad faith or malice, the existence of which ordinarily cannot be resolved without engaging in discovery and eventual trial.”
63 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“look to the particular act's relation to a general function normally performed by a judge.”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although unfairness and injustice to a litigant may result on occasion, “it is a general principle of the highest importance to the proper administration of justice that a judicial officer, in exercising the authority vested in him, shall be free to act upon his own convictions, without apprehension of personal consequences to himself.””
22 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.