Fields v. Soloff’s Empirical Analysis
920 F.2d 1114 · 1990
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Ying Jing Gan v. City of New York (1993), California Public Employees' Retirement System v. New York Stock Exchange, Inc. (2007)
14 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 Conley v. Gibson · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Imbler v. Pachtman · Pierson v. Ray · 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] judge defending against a section 1983 suit is entitled to absolute immunity from damages for actions performed in his judicial capacity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kampfer v. County“Most other activities are characterized as administrative or investigative and, thus, merit less protection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless a prosecutor proceeds in the clear absence of all jurisdiction,”
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.