Schloss v. Bouse’s Empirical Analysis
876 F.2d 287 · 1989
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Scotto v. Almenas (1998), Ying Jing Gan v. City of New York (1993)
29 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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 · 18 U.S.C. § 3663 · 18 U.S.C. § 872 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1986
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Santobello v. New York · Imbler v. Pachtman · Butz v. Economou · Stump v. Sparkman
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as a matter of logic, absolute immunity must also protect the prosecutor from damages suits based on his decision not to prosecute.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beck v. Phillips · Fields v. Soloff“manifestly or palpably beyond his authority,”
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.