Chavez v. Singer’s Empirical Analysis
698 F.2d 420 · 1983
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably Valdez v. City & County of Denver (1989), Austin Municipal Securities, Inc. v. National Ass'n of Securities Dealers, Inc. (1985)
25 federal appellate · 3 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1442
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Abney v. United States · Barr v. Matteo
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.
“should be determined before a trial on the merits. In each situation a defendant contests a plaintiffs right to “hale him into court.” The district court here conclusively determined the immunity question. Immunity is important and collateral to the merits of the action. The right to immunity is a question of law and is arguably lost once the trial is held.”
2 later decisions 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.