Henzel v. Gerstein’s Empirical Analysis
608 F.2d 654 · 1979
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 14 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Oliveri v. Thompson (1986), Myers v. Morris (1987)
87 federal appellate · 14 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 Imbler v. Pachtman · Griffin v. Breckenridge · Stump v. Sparkman · Wood v. Strickland · O'Connor v. Donaldson
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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he actions complained of were a necessary and integral part of a prosecutor's role in the judicial system”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[sjtate officials are protected by a qualified immunity from § 1983 damage suits upon a showing that they acted in good faith and without malice,” for which Johnson v. Wells, among other decisions, is cited. 608 F.2d at 658-59 . But Johnson v. Wells states that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Kegans“We are not persuaded by the plaintiff's argument that immunity should not extend to a prosecutor's conduct in handling appeals. The policy underlying a grant of immunity is the same in both situations.”
1 later decision 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.