Johnson v. Kegans’s Empirical Analysis
870 F.2d 992 · 1989
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 118 Wash. 2d 195 - Taggart v. State (1992), Johnson v. Rodriguez (1997)
23 federal appellate · 2 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 18 U.S.C. § 242 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 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 · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Haines v. Kerner · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Perry v. Sindermann
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]t is well established that judges are absolutely immune from liability for judicial acts that are not performed in clear absence of all jurisdiction, however erroneous the act, and however evil the motive.” See Johnson v. Kegans 11 , 870 F.2d 992, 995 (5th Cir.1989), citing Stump v. Sparkman 12 , 435 U.S. 349 , 98 S.Ct. 1099 , 55 L.Ed.2d 331 (1978).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the need to assure that the individual can perform his functions without harassment or intimidation; (2) the presence of safeguards that reduce the need for private damages actions as a means of controlling unconstitutional conduct; (3) insulation from political influence; (4) the importance of precedent; (5) the adversarial nature of the process; (6) the correctability of the error on appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The “cluster” of absolute immunities that protect participants in judicial and other adjudicatory proceedings exist to help guarantee an independent, disinterested decision-making process. These absolute immunities prevent the harassment and intimidation that could otherwise result if disgruntled litigants — particularly criminal defendants and inmates, both of whom have their liberty at stake — could vent their anger by suing either the person who presented the decision maker with adverse information or the person or persons who rendered an adverse decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Nester
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.