Forsyth v. Kleindienst’s Empirical Analysis
599 F.2d 1203 · 1979
Citation profile
88 federal appellate · 12 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 183 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably Harlow v. Fitzgerald (1982), Mitchell v. Forsyth (1985)
88 federal appellate · 12 district · 9 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 18 U.S.C. § 2520 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 511 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 7 U.S.C. § 9
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Imbler v. Pachtman · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Butz v. Economou
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 183 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o the extent that the securing of information is necessary to a prosecutor's decision to initiate a criminal prosecution, it is encompassed within the protected, quasi-judicial immunity afforded to the decision itself.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process ...,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dellums v. Powell · Black v. Bayer“obtaining, reviewing, and evaluating the evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rex v. Teeples · Kulwicki v. Dawson
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.