Claus v. Gyorkey’s Empirical Analysis
674 F.2d 427 · 1982
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably 481 So. 2d 247 - Shaw v. Burchfield (1985), Williamson v. United States Department of Agriculture (1987)
23 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1442
Relies on Butz v. Economou · Barr v. Matteo · United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · Virgil Norton, Virgil Wesley and James Chapman v. James P. McShane · Snohomish County v. Seattle Disposal Company
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the action of the federal official bear some reasonable relation to and connection with his duties and responsibilities ...,'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“absent an allegation of a tort of constitutional magnitude, federal officials are entitled to absolute immunity for ordinary torts committed within the scope of their jobs.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Norton v. McShane, 332 F.2d 855 (5th Cir.1964), cert. denied, 380 U.S. 981, 85 S.Ct. 1345, 14 L.Ed.2d 274 (1965). 6 The”
1 later decision 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.