Martinez v. Schrock’s Empirical Analysis
537 F.2d 765 · 1976
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1442 · 37 U.S.C. § 313 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 233 (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009)
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Imbler v. Pachtman · Pierson v. Ray · Wood v. Strickland · Feres v. United States
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Instead of deferring to future Congressional judgment on the creation of absolute immunity in this kind of suit, the majority has chosen to weigh the competing policy considerations and to make an essentially legislative judgment. It has done so, however, without the benefit of the interplay of the various competing interests which, by design, appropriately occurs within the legislative arena. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to concern himself with his patient's military status or with the technicalities of tort law.”
1 later decision 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.