Crooks v. Maynard’s Empirical Analysis
913 F.2d 699 · 1990
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Franceschi v. Schwartz (1995), Moore v. Brewster (1996)
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Stump v. Sparkman · Forrester v. White · Kruso v. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. · Ward v. Sentry Title Co. · Lormand v. Aries Marine Corp.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[j]urisdiction is construed broadly where the issue is the immunity of a judge.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“function normally performed by a judge [, and the parties] dealt with the judge in his judicial capacity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Absolute judicial immunity only applies to judicial acts and not to administrative, legislative, and executive functions that judges may perform.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ellington v. Miller
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.