Wallen v. Domm’s Empirical Analysis
700 F.2d 124 · 1983
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Krohn v. United States (1984), McKinney v. Whitfield (1984)
17 federal appellate · 6 district · 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
Relies on Butz v. Economou · Barr v. Matteo · Spalding v. Vilas · 532 F. Supp. 73 - Wallen v. Domm
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o separate the activity that constitutes the wrong from its surrounding context — an otherwise proper exercise of authority — would effectively emasculate the immunity defense. Once the wrongful acts are excluded from an exercise of authority, only innocuous activity remains to which immunity would be available. Thus, the defense would apply only to conduct for which it is not needed.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“since no constitutional violation is involved in this case, the activity complained of falls well within the limits of an absolute immunity claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“was not authorized to assault his subordinates”
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.