Dorman v. Higgins’s Empirical Analysis
821 F.2d 133 · 1987
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 12 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Scotto v. Almenas (1998), Mullis v. United Statescy Court for District of Nevada
39 federal appellate · 12 district · 4 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 18 U.S.C. § 3602
Relies on Anders v. California · Conley v. Gibson · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Haines v. Kerner · Mitchell v. Forsyth
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“([S]ince absolute immunity spares the official any scrutiny of his motives, an allegation that an act was done pursuant to a conspiracy has no greater effect than an allegation that it was done in bad faith or with malice, neither of which defeats a claim of absolute immunity.).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as an arm of the court,” acknowledging that”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“integrally related to the judicial process.”
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.