Oliva v. Heller’s Empirical Analysis
839 F.2d 37 · 1988
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Terrell v. Brewer (1991), Lombard v. Edward J. Peters, Jr., P.C. (2000)
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Imbler v. Pachtman · Pierson v. Ray · Butz v. Economou · Vandygriff v. Phillips
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]or the purposes of absolute judicial immunity, judges and their law clerks are as one.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“certain others who perform functions closely associated with the judicial process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for benefit of the public, whose interest it is that the judges should be at liberty to exercise their functions with independence and without fear of consequences .... His errors may be corrected on appeal, but he should not have to fear that unsatisfied litigants may hound him with litigation charging malice or corruption. Oliva v. Heller, 839 F.2d 37, 39 (2d Cir.1988) (quoting Pierson v. Ray, 386 U.S. 547, 554 , 87 S.Ct. 1213 , 18 L.Ed.2d 288 (1967)).”
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.