Heath v. Cornelius’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 2002
3 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 Pierson v. Ray · Bradley v. Fisher · Pargoud v. United States · Mundy v. McDonald · Thompson v. Heither
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule (of judicial immunity) was created not for the benefit of the individual judge, but for the benefit of the people; the doctrine protects the judiciary from vexatious lawsuits by dissatisfied litigants, thus avoiding a trend which would ‘contribute not to principled and fearless decision making but to intimidation.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. Witt
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.