Walter v. Torres’s Empirical Analysis
917 F.2d 1379 · 1990
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Orellana v. Kyle (1995), McGrew v. Texas Board of Pardons & Paroles (1995)
20 federal appellate · 1 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Creighton · Morrissey v. Brewer · Carey v. Piphus · Forrester v. White · Alexander v. United States
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'parole board members are absolutely immune from liability for their conduct in individual parole decisions when they are exercising their decision making powers....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“had been making a rule of practice for a judicial body, it would have been entitled to absolute immunity in making as well as applying the rule”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hulsey v. Owens“Whether a defendant possesses absolute immunity from suit is a question of law.”
1 later decision 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.