Celia v. C O'Malley P’s Empirical Analysis
918 F.2d 1017 · 1990
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2017
8 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Paul v. Davis · Imbler v. Pachtman · Butz v. Economou · Correa-Martinez v. Arrillaga-Belendez · Dartmouth Review v. Dartmouth College
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Celia had not alleged facts sufficient to establish a connection between the alleged constitutional violation (viz., the right not to be tried without indictment) and the prosecutors’ defamatory statements____ The complaint thus fails to establish the necessary nexus between the purported independent constitutional violation and the defamatory statements, and, therefore, does not state a claim under § 1983.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an alleged constitutional violation for which the defendant prosecutor enjoys absolute immunity [such as initiating criminal charges] can provide the plus' needed to satisfy the 'defamation-plus’ test of Paul v. Davis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the checks inherent in the judicial process, including judicial supervision and the adversarial nature of trial [which] reduce the likelihood of prosecutorial abuse ... [and] mitigat[e] any damages that might result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harrington v. Almy
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.