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Giraldo v. Kessler’s Empirical Analysis

694 F.3d 161 · 2012

Citation profile

29
cited by 29 later decisions
June 2025
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Imbler v. Pachtman · Burns v. Reed · Buckley v. Fitzsimmons · Nixon v. Fitzgerald · Hill v. City of New York

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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Compl.”). The Court may, "also take judicial notice’ of relevant matters of public record.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[a] prosecutor's administrative duties and those investigatory functions that do not relate to an advocate's preparation for the initiation of a prosecution or for judicial proceedings are not entitled to absolute immunity,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “whether a reasonable prosecutor would view the acts challenged by the complaint as reasonably within the functions of a prosecutor.”
    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.