Keller v. McElveen’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
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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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon information provided by Defendant, WAYNE F. MCELVEEN, Plaintiff is informed and believes that notwithstanding the original exculpatory evidence to the contrary which was provided to Plaintiff shortly prior to the filing of the original petition herein, Defendant, RICK BRYANT, issued a fugitive warrant to the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff commanding the arrest of Plaintiff, KAREN E. KELLER, and then failed to withdraw the issuance of said order, after he decided not to prosecute the charges against the Plaintiff, causing and/or contributing to the fault of the other Defendants, WAYNE F. MCEL-VEEN, Sheriff, and SAMUEL IVEY, Chief of Police, Lake Charles, Louisiana, in failing to remove the fugitive warrant notation against Plaintiff, KAREN E. KELLER, on the NCIC computer system.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Keller v. McElveen“[w]hile this paperwork or communication is incrementally attenuated from the actual decision to dismiss the charges, a function undoubtedly prosecutorial, we conclude that it is still an extension of the prosecutorial duty and not the type of administrative function that does not afford absolute immunity. The communication is intimately associated with the function of a prosecutor, as a prosecutor, in a criminal matter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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