Williams v. Hartje’s Empirical Analysis
827 F.2d 1203 · 1987
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Brodnicki v. City of Omaha (1996), Lewellen v. Raff (1988)
16 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 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. § 1292
Relies on Imbler v. Pachtman · Brame v. United States · Kissinger v. Halperin · Gregoire v. Biddle · 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“investigation to secure the information necessary to the prosecutor's decision to initiate criminal proceedings is within the quasi-judicial aspect of the prosecutor's job and therefore is absolutely immune from civil suit for damages.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under Arkansas law, an affirmative action by the defendant which has the effect of fraudulently concealing the plaintiff’s cause of action is effective to toll the statute of limitations. See, e.g., Walters v. Lewis, 276 Ark. 286, 290-91 , 634 S.W.2d 129, 132 (1982). If fraudulent concealment is properly pleaded, the complaint is invulnerable to dismissal on limitations grounds and a fact question is created on which both sides are entitled to offer proof. Brewer v. Hawkins, 241 Ark. 460, 464 , 408 S.W.2d 492, 494 (1966). The statute of limitations begins to run no later than the day that the concealed matter was discovered. But concealment of facts, no matter how fraudulent or otherwise wrongful, has no effect on the running of the statute of limitations if the plaintiffs could have discovered the fraud or sufficient other facts on which to bring their lawsuit, through a reasonable effort on their part. Walters v. Lewis, 276 Ark. at 291 , 634 S.W.2d at 132 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]ctions connected with initiation of prosecution, even if those actions are patently improper”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schenk v. Chavis
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.