681 So. 2d 944 - Knapper v. Connick’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Hudson v. City of New Orleans (1999), 758 So. 2d 782 - Gibson v. State (2000)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 18 U.S.C. § 242 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Imbler v. Pachtman · Burns v. Reed · Buckley v. Fitzsimmons · United Transportation Union v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a functional analysis of the role a prosecutor is fulfilling when the alleged misconduct occurs is the touchstone to determining the type of immunity available.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Chief amount the reasons most often cited for granting absolute prosecutorial immunity are concern that constant fear of later civil suits for damages may chill the vigorous prosecution of those charged with violating state statutes, that such fears may deter competent people from seeking office, and that defense of claims for malicious prosecution may drain valuable time and effort. * * * * * * To be sure, this immunity does leave the genuinely wronged defendant without civil redress against a prosecutor whose malicious or dishonest action deprives him of liberty. But the alternative of qualifying a prosecutor's immunity would disserve the broader public interest. It would prevent the vigorous and fearless performance of the prosecutor's duty that is essential to the proper functioning of the criminal justice system. Id., 681 So.2d at 947 -948 (citing Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409, 427-428 [, 96 S.Ct. 984 , 47 L.Ed.2d 128 ] (1976)).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[C]ommunications made in judicial or quasi-judicial proceedings carry an absolute privilege so that witnesses, bound by their oaths to tell the truth, may speak freely without fear of civil suits for damages.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.