Galvan v. Garmon’s Empirical Analysis
710 F.2d 214 · 1983
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Scotto v. Almenas (1998), Snell
21 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Imbler v. Pachtman · Butz v. Economou · Owen v. City of Independence · Douthit v. Jones
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hereas in Spaulding the probation officer was acting at the direction of the court during the presentence report process, in the immediate case the probation officer acted at her own initiative and at a different phase of the criminal process less intimately associated with the judiciary.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“noted that absolute immunity for judicial functions 'has extended no further than its justification would warrant.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ray v. Pickett“present the sort of `special functions or constitutional status [which] requires complete protection from suit.'”
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.