Dellums v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
660 F.2d 802 · 1981
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably Augustin J. San Filippo v. United States Trust Company of New York (1985), Windsor v. The Tennessean (1983)
22 federal appellate · 4 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 Imbler v. Pachtman · Butz v. Economou · Dennis v. Sparks · Bradley v. Fisher · Deckert v. Independence Shares Corp.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]ever has a prosecutorial official been held liable for causing a prosecution to be brought”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Ajbsolute immunity does not extend to a prosecutor engaged in essentially investigative or administrative functions. Halperin v. Kissinger, 606 F.2d 1192 , 1208 (D.C.Cir.1979), aff’d by an equally divided Court per curiam, 452 U.S. 713 [ 101 S.Ct. 3132 , 69 L.Ed.2d 367 ] (1981); Briggs v. Goodwin, 569 F.2d 10 , 21 (D.C.Cir. 1977), cert. denied, 437 U.S. 904 [ 98 S.Ct. 3089 , 57 L.Ed.2d 1133 ] (1978); Apton v . Wilson, 506 F.2d 83 , 93 (D.C.Cir.1974). However, when a prosecutor is engaged “in initiating a prosecution,” his absolute immunity from civil suit is firmly established. Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. at 431 [96 S.Ct. at 995],”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to initiate a malicious prosecution. To subject an Attorney General to suits of this kind would surely offend the principles of Imbler v. Pachtman. Id.; cf. Hamilton v. Daley, supra note 185, 777 F.2d at 1213 n. 5 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.