Beard v. Udall’s Empirical Analysis
648 F.2d 1264 · 1981
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Ashelman v. Pope (1986), Ybarra v. Reno Thunderbird Mobile Home Village (1984)
23 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 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 · Pierson v. Ray · Butz v. Economou · Stump v. Sparkman · Hanrahan v. Hampton
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a function normally performed by a judge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ashelman v. Pope · Ashelman v. Pope“[although a party conniving with a judge to predetermine the outcome of a judicial proceeding may deal with him in his ‘judicial capacity,’ the other party’s expectation, i.e., judicial impartiality, is actively frustrated by the scheme. In any event, the agreement is not ‘a function normally performed by a judge.’ It is the antithesis of the ‘principled and fearless decision-making’ that judicial immunity exists to protect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Id. at 1269. Thus, for purposes of applying immunity, we focused not on the judge's ultimate acts which appeared to be judicial, but rather on the underlying agreement to conspire which Rankin declared to be nonjudicial. 16 Turning to the prosecutor's immunity, we indicated that the immunity of a prosecutor is based upon the same considerations that underlie judicial immunity. Id. at 1270-71. We held that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ashelman v. Pope
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.