Grant v. Hollenbach’s Empirical Analysis
870 F.2d 1135 · 1989
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably Burns v. Reed (1991), No. 90-6051 (1991)
26 federal appellate · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Imbler v. Pachtman · Griffin v. Breckenridge · Briscoe v. W
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]bsolute prosecutorial immunity is not defeated by a showing that a prosecutor acted wrongfully or even maliciously.... The decision to prosecute ... 'even if malicious and founded in bad faith, is unquestionably advocatory and at the heart of the holding in Imbler.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Lewis v. Craft · Lomaz v. Hennosy“were intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process, and thus were functions to which the reasons for absolute immunity apply with full force.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Lewis v. Craft“the decision of the prosecutors to investigate a serious criminal charge [as opposed to an actual investigation] is protected by absolute immunity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.