Nelson v. McDaniel’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
July 2018
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Stump v. Sparkman · State Ex Rel. Raack v. Kohn
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“judicial immunity protects a sheriff who is following a protected judge's orders.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Finch
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.