Knowlton v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
704 F.3d 1 · 2013
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2679 · 28 U.S.C. § 46 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Imbler v. Pachtman · Butz v. Economou · Griffin v. Breckenridge · State of New Hampshire v. State of Maine · Forrester v. White
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts sometimes have allowed judicial estoppel when the estopped party was responsible in fact for the earlier representation or when the estopped party was the assignee of a litigation claim or assumed the original party's role.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]rosecutors ... are absolutely immune for actions, taken as advocates for the State, which are closely associated with the judicial process such as initiating and pursuing a criminal prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]hird, the party seeking to assert the inconsistent position must stand to derive an unfair advantage if the new position is accepted by the court,”
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.