Kurowski v. Krajewski’s Empirical Analysis
848 F.2d 767 · 1988
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Retired Chicago Police Association Carepac v. City of Chicago M, Ustrak v. Fairman (1988)
69 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Anderson v. Creighton · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Hensley v. Eckerhart · 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.
“A judge both makes and implements governmental policy. A judge may be suspicious of the police or sympathetic to them, stern or lenient in sentencing, and political debates rage about such questions. In most states judges are elected, implying that the office has a political component. Holders of the appointing authority may seek to ensure that judges agree with them on important jurisprudential questions.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] public official may raise questions of immunity on appeal from a final judgment even though he bypassed an opportunity to take an interlocutory appeal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Interlocutory orders ... may be stored up and raised at the end of the case....”
3 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.