Dretar v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
752 F.2d 1015 · 1985
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1442 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Barr v. Matteo · Bush v. Lucas · United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · Spalding v. Vilas · Shillingford v. Holmes
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.
“We cannot accept the Araujo and McKinney courts’ reasoning or conclusion that the absolute immunity does not extend to any battery committed by a federal desk employee because we believe that the Araujo and McKinney courts misapprehended the nature of the considerations at stake in absolute immunity cases. Dretar, 752 F.2d at 1018 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Palermo v. Rorex
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.