Spaulding v. Nielsen’s Empirical Analysis
599 F.2d 728 · 1979
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 9 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Scotto v. Almenas (1998), 118 Wash. 2d 195 - Taggart v. State (1992)
38 federal appellate · 9 district · 8 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Imbler v. Pachtman · Pierson v. Ray · Stump v. Sparkman · Wood v. Strickland
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e have no occasion to decide today, and do not decide, whether immunity will shield probation officers from civil liability for official activities apart from the presentence report process.”
4 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 majority“[T]his narrow function is intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hughes v. Chesser · Hart v. Hodges
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.