541 So. 2d 378 - Moore v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2010
12 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 Stump v. Sparkman · Forrester v. White · Supreme Court of Virginia v. Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. · Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Public Utilities Commission · Pargoud v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“acts. Moore v. Taylor, 541 So.2d 378 (La.App. 2d Cir. 1989). A judge, of whatever status in the judicial hierarchy, is immune from suit for damages resulting from any act performed in the judicial role. Judges are absolutely immune from 42 U.S.C. § 1983 liability for all acts performed within their subject matter jurisdiction, even if the acts are malicious. This immunity extends to justices of the peace as well as those that sit on the supreme court and shields judges unless they act either in”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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