Cross v. Meisel’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2015
2 federal appellate · 5 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Haines v. Kerner · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Imbler v. Pachtman · Wilson v. Garcia
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although it is true that certain sovereign powers of the Commonwealth are delegated to a district attorney, this is true generally of county and local officials . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the decision [by a prosecutor] to seek the presence of a defendant is safely within the quasi-judicial, and hence absolutely immune, part of a prosecutor's duties”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“extradition is `intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process'”
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.