Herman K. Burke v. Jerry Miller, M.D.’s Empirical Analysis
580 F.2d 108 · 1978
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2006 · most notably Briscoe v. W (1983), Briscoe v. Lahue (1981)
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Relies on Imbler v. Pachtman · Pierson v. Ray · Griffin v. Breckenridge · O'Shea v. Littleton · Stump v. Sparkman
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he participation of the defendant doctor in our case was an “integral part of the judicial process” (quoting Imbler at 430 [ 96 S.Ct. at 995 ]) ... [and] his “activities were intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process, and thus were functions to which the reasons for absolute immunity apply with full force.” (quoting Id.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“leave the public powerless to deter misconduct or to punish that which occurs. This Court has never suggested that the policy considerations which compel civil immunity for certain governmental officials also place them beyond the reach of the criminal law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Charles v. Wade
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.