Henriksen v. Bentley’s Empirical Analysis
644 F.2d 852 · 1981
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Hall v. Bellmon (1991), Haynesworth v. Miller (1987)
36 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 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 Scheuer v. Rhodes · Imbler v. Pachtman · Pierson v. Ray · Butz v. Economou · Bounds v. Smith
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]mmunity which derives from judicial immunity may extend to persons other than a judge where performance of judicial acts or activity as an official aid of the judge is involved.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“on the face of the complaint it clearly appears that the action is frivolous or malicious.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Judges are absolutely immune from civil liability for judicial acts, unless committed in the clear absence of all jurisdiction.”
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.