Daniels v. Kieser’s Empirical Analysis
586 F.2d 64 · 1978
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Hampton v. Hanrahan (1979), Gray III v. Bell (1983)
20 federal appellate · 3 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 · Butz v. Economou · O'Shea v. Littleton · Stump v. Sparkman · Frey 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the civil plaintiff is a witness rather than the accused, for Imbler and Butz [v. Economou, 438 U.S. 478 , 98 S.Ct. 2894, 57 L.Ed.2d 895 (1978) ] have at least implied that prosecutorial immunity also applies to suits by witnesses as well as by accused....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Betts v. Richard“a prosecutor proceeds in the clear absence of all jurisdiction, absolute immunity exists for those prosecutorial activities intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Lafollette“Because defendant was attempting to secure Daniels' presence at the resumption of the trial, we must consider that he was functioning as an advocate rather than an investigator or administrator.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hamilton v. Daley
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.