Scott v. Hayes’s Empirical Analysis
719 F.2d 1562 · 1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2017
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Bonner v. City of Prichard · Stump v. Sparkman · Harper v. Merckle · McAlester v. Brown · 163 Ind. App. 636 - Al v. Grh
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judge will not be deprived of immunity because the action he took was in error, was done maliciously, or was in excess of his authority; rather, he will be subject to liability only when he has acted in the clear absence of all jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Freeman v. Fuller
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.