Lowe v. Letsinger’s Empirical Analysis
772 F.2d 308 · 1985
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Pritchett v. Alford (1992), Burkett v. Cunningham (1987)
35 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 28 U.S.C. § 372 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Parratt v. Taylor · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Pierson v. Ray · Boddie v. Connecticut
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the act or decision involves the exercise of discretion or judgment, or is rather a ministerial act which might as well have been committed to a private person as to a judge.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“because the clerk's duty to type and send notice after entry of judgment is a non-discretionary, ministerial task.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The factors determining whether an act by a judge is a "judicial" one relate to the nature of the act itself, 1.e., whether it is a function normally performed by a judge, and to the expectations of the parties, i.e., whether they dealt with the judge in his judicial capacity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dawson v. Newman
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.