Ehrlich v. Giuliani’s Empirical Analysis
910 F.2d 1220 · 1990
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably No. 90-6051 (1991), Pinaud v. County of Suffolk (1995)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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. § 1963 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 242
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Malley v. Briggs · Imbler v. Pachtman · Butz v. Economou
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One of the most important duties of a prosecutor pursuing a criminal proceeding is to ensure that defendants ... are present at trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(i) “the centrality of the challenged conduct to the criminal justice system”; (ii) “the substantiality of the threat of vexatious litigation, and the extent to which that threat would inhibit performance of important public duties”; and (iii) “the availability of alternative mechanisms to safeguard against prosecutorial misconduct.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“had already made the decision to initiate criminal proceedings and were preparing their case for trial”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.