Salyer v. Patrick’s Empirical Analysis
874 F.2d 374 · 1989
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably Sammye R. Holloway v. Sally Brush Clermont County, Ohio (2000), Snell
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 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))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Briscoe v. W · Brame v. United States · Hanil Bank v. Michelman · Church of Scientology of California v. Wollersheim
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Immunity rests not on status or title but on the function performed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“precedent has established that 'the critical inquiry is how closely related is the prosecutor's challenged activity to his role as an advocate intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ireland v. Tunis“must be able to perform the necessary tasks to achieve [their] goal[s] without the worry of intimidation and harassment from dissatisfied parents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holloway v. Ohio
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.