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Mitchell v. McBryde’s Empirical Analysis

944 F.2d 229 · 1991

Citation profile

50
cited by 50 later decisions
3
states following
April 2018
most recently cited

13 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Blackburn v. Marshall City of (1995), Moore v. Brewster (1996)

13 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

310199120002010decided

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

Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Stump v. Sparkman · Alexander v. United States · McKesson Corp. v. Division of Alcoholic Beverages & Tobacco · Timberlake 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Dao v. Auchan Hypermarket · Blackburn v. Marshall City of
  2. “The judge is absolutely immune for all judicial acts 'not performed in clear absence of all jurisdiction, however erroneous the act and however evil the motive.' "). She also alleges that Judge Bosworth engaged in a non-judicial act when he had a "private, after-business-hours meeting”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Thomas v. State
  3. “The fact that it is alleged that the judge acted pursuant to a conspiracy ... is not sufficient to avoid absolute judicial immunity.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Thomas v. State

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.