Strothman v. Gefreh’s Empirical Analysis
739 F.2d 515 · 1984
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Tripati v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service (1986), Ricci v. Key Bancshares of Maine, Inc. (1985)
16 federal appellate · 5 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 28 U.S.C. § 1441
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Butz v. Economou · Dalehite v. United States · Barr v. Matteo
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) whether the defendant was acting within the scope of [her] official duties; (2) whether the act complained of involved the exercise of judgment or discretion; and (3) whether a grant of absolute immunity under the circumstances of the case would further the policies underlying the official immunity doctrine.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“free to exercise their duties unembarrassed by the fear of damage suits in respect of acts done in the course of those duties—suits which would consume time and energies which would otherwise be devoted to governmental service and the threat of which might appreciably inhibit the fearless, vigorous, and effective administration of policies of government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in general are not absolutely immune ... unless they are performing a narrowly defined judicial, executive, or legislative function.”
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.