Rankin v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
633 F.2d 844 · 1980
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 8 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Ashelman v. Pope (1986), Sevier v. Turner (1984)
41 federal appellate · 8 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Pierson v. Ray · Stump v. Sparkman · Kulko v. Superior Court of California in and for City and County of San Francisco · Dennis v. Sparks
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Id. 6 This conclusion followed from the fact that a party expects judicial impartiality in dealing with a judge; thus, if a judge connives with one of the parties to predetermine the outcome of a judicial proceeding, the other parties' expectations are frustrated. Id. Moreover, the court noted, an agreement by a judge to predetermine the outcome of a proceeding is”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a function normally performed by a judge.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carter v. Rupracht · Beard v. Udall“(W)hen a judge ... acts in the face of clearly valid statutes or case law expressly depriving him of jurisdiction, judicial immunity is lost.”
2 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.