Sorey v. Kellett’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2025
7 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Stack v. Boyle
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291, the courts of appeals have jurisdiction over 'final decisions' of the district courts. Ordinarily, this section precludes review of a district court's pretrial orders until appeal from the final judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for what they reveal about the state's view on the substantive issue of whether qualified immunity is an immunity from suit or merely a defense to liability,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In Mississippi, public officials sued in their individual capacities have a limited, qualified immunity that extends to “discretionary,” not to “ministerial” acts. Davis v. Little, 362 So.2d 642, 643 (Miss.1978). A discretionary act is one requiring “personal deliberation, decision and judgment.” Id. (quoting W. Prosser, Law of Torts § 132 (4th ed.1971)). A ministerial act, by contrast, is one “positively imposed by law and its performance required at a time and in a manner or upon conditions which are specifically designated, the duty to perform under the conditions specified not being dependent upon the officer’s judgment or discretion.” Poyner v. Gilmore, 111 Miss. 859, 864, 158 So. 922, 923 (1935).”
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.