Gobel v. Maricopa County’s Empirical Analysis
867 F.2d 1201 · 1989
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 9 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2014 · most notably Buckley v. Fitzsimmons (1993), Buckey v. County of Los Angeles (1992)
63 federal appellate · 9 district · 8 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. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Bell v. Wolfish · Paul v. Davis · Imbler v. Pachtman · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“can be granted only if it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his or her claim.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A prosecutor enjoys absolute immunity when he acts in ... a quasi-judicial capacity.... Quasi-judicial activities are those intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]nvestigators, employed by a prosecutor and performing investigative work in connection with a criminal prosecution, are entitled to the same degree of immunity as prosecutors.”
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.