Wiggins v. Hess’s Empirical Analysis
531 F.2d 920 · 1976
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2000
3 federal appellate · 1 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 Pierson v. Ray · Edwin Duba v. W. Don McIntyre · Lee v. McDonald · Ex Parte Williford v. Stewart · State v. Harrison
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The immunity of a judge from liability for damages was not abrogated by the passage of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 , and this immunity applies even when the judge acts maliciously and corruptly. A judge loses his immunity only if he acts in the clear absence of jurisdiction. Pierson v. Ray, 386 U.S. 547 , 554, 87 S.Ct. 1213 , 18 L.Ed.2d 288 (1967); Duba v. McIntyre, 501 F.2d 590 (8th Cir. 1974). (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harley v. Oliver
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.