Bianchi v. McQueen’s Empirical Analysis
818 F.3d 309 · 2016
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Malley v. Briggs · Imbler v. Pachtman · Grupo Mexicano Desarrollos v. Alliance Bond Fund Inc · Albright v. Oliver
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an officer (or investigating prosecutor) fabricates evidence and puts that fabricated evidence in a drawer, making no further use of it, then the officer has not violated due process.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Prosecutors are absolutely immune from liability for damages under § 1983 for conduct that is functionally prosecutorial; this immunity is understood to broadly cover all conduct associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether a malicious-prosecution claim is ever cognizable as a Fourth Amendment violation remediable under § 1983”
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.