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568 F.2d 1176 · 1978

Citation profile

43
cited by 43 later decisions
2
states following
February 2003
most recently cited

23 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2003 · most notably Fullman v. Graddick (1984), Henzel v. Gerstein (1979)

23 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions

3101978198019902000decided

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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Imbler v. Pachtman · Wilkins v. American Export Isbrandtsen Lines, Inc. · Sewell v. Grand Lodge of the International Ass'n of Machinists & Aerospace Workers · Estes v. Tasby

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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “initiating and pursuing a criminal prosecution and in presenting the state's case ... even where the prosecutor knowingly used perjured testimony, deliberately withheld exculpatory information, or failed to make full disclosure of all facts”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “injury to the person or rights of another not arising from contract,”
    2 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.