In Re Scott County Master Docket’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 671 (§ 471 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Carroll 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The determination of whether a prosecutor's actions were prosecutorial or investigatory sometimes requires a limited factual inquiry. Of course, permitting a factual inquiry on the issue of whether actions were prosecutorial or investigatory dilutes somewhat the protection of prosecutorial immunity, but this dilution may be necessary in some cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[Gjovernment officials performing discretionary functions, generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“This warning is part of the Government Data Practices Act, Minn.Stat. Secs. 13.01-.88, and it requires social workers to, inter alia, inform interviewees whether they may refuse to answer questions and why information is being sought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Myers v. Morris
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.