John Moses v. Sadashiv D. Parwatikar, M.D.’s Empirical Analysis
813 F.2d 891 · 1987
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 10 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably LaLonde v. Eissner (1989), Cok v. Cosentino (1989)
11 federal appellate · 10 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Pierson v. Ray · Briscoe v. W · Kirchberg v. Feenstra · Railway Labor Executives' Ass'n v. Gibbons · Myers v. Morris
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Exceptions to absolute immunity should not be created freely. That malicious or corrupt acts are protected, [citation omitted] indicated how solidly the doctrine of absolute immunity is entrenched in our legal system. To defeat this doctrine by pleading a conspiracy would be to create an exception where none was intended. * * * However, the need to preserve the judge’s independence requires a grant of absolute immunity.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“functions essential to the judicial process.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Non-judicial persons who fulfill quasi-judicial functions intimately related to the judicial process have absolute immunity for damage claims arising from their performance of the delegated functions ... anything less than absolute immunity would defeat the requirement that the "paths which led to the ascertainment of truth ... be left as free and as unobstructed as possible."”
2 later decisions 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.