Cok v. Cosentino’s Empirical Analysis
876 F.2d 1 · 1989
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 40 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Pinaud v. County of Suffolk (1995), Peter J. Hughes, Jr. v. Lynn E. Long Kathleen Lacey Patrick J. McHugh (2001)
35 federal appellate · 40 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1964 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Daniels v. Williams · Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · Stump v. Sparkman · 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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally a private citizen has no authority to initiate a federal criminal prosecution.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Only judicial actions taken in the clear absence of all jurisdiction will deprive a judge of absolute immunity.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“absolute immunity from civil liability for any normal and routine judicial act.... This immunity applies no matter how erroneous the act may have been, how injurious its consequences, how informal the proceeding, or how malicious the motive.”
2 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.