Powers v. Coe’s Empirical Analysis
728 F.2d 97 · 1984
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Buckley v. Fitzsimmons (1993), Connie Robison v. Susan R. Via and Harold Harrison (1987)
43 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 Scheuer v. Rhodes · Younger v. Harris · Parratt v. Taylor · Paul v. Davis · Imbler v. Pachtman
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a guilty plea in no way bars a section 1983 claim under principles of collateral estoppel, waiver, or mootness, where the alleged constitutional violations were not necessarily answered by the admission of guilt”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“bright lines between quasi-judicial absolutely immune conduct, on the one hand, and investigative and administrative qualifiedly immune behavior, on the other,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]o the degree that a prosecutor is called upon as part of his official duties to deal with the press, it would appear beyond cavil that such a duty would be administrative rather than 'quasi judicial,' and hence not deserving of the cloak of absolute immunity.”
2 later decisions 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.