Mancini v. Lester’s Empirical Analysis
630 F.2d 990 · 1980
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 11 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2007 · most notably Harlow v. Fitzgerald (1982), Rose 88-1634 v. Bartle a Reed W 88-1646 (1989)
21 federal appellate · 11 district · 7 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) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Imbler v. Pachtman · United Steelworkers of America v. Weber · Kelsey-Hayes Co. v. Dunlop Co. · Alexander v. United States Department of Housing & Urban Development · Hampton v. City of Chicago
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 60 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.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for those aspects of the prosecutor's responsibility that cast him in the role of an administrator or investigative officer rather than that of advocate.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in initiating a prosecution and in presenting the state's case,”
3 later decisions 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.