Zweibon v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
720 F.2d 162 · 1983
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 57 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Mitchell v. Forsyth (1985), Hobson v. Wilson (1984)
14 federal appellate · 57 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 294
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Katz v. United States · Dandridge v. Williams · Butz v. Economou · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he absence of clear standards for defining or evaluating the 'purpose' of a warrantless 'national security' wiretap ... [the plaintiffs'] allegations of prosecutorial purpose raise no genuine issue material to the Attorney General's right to immunity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“id. at 1082, and that the minimization procedures Mitchell himself had prescribed ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The previously recognized subjective aspect of qualified or good faith immunity ... frequently has proved incompatible with the principle that insubstantial claims should not proceed to trial. Now, however, once the trial judge determines that the law was not clearly established at the time that the contested conduct occurred; the inquiry ceases. At that point the official is entitled to summary judgment as a matter of law, and [ujntil this threshold immunity question is resolved, discovery should not be allowed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.