Williams v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
945 F.2d 1322 · 1991
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1442 · 28 U.S.C. § 2671 · 28 U.S.C. § 2674 · 28 U.S.C. § 2679 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Carnegie v. United States · Davis v. Passman
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are in any event powerless under [Doe i>.] McMillan to expand official immunity as Congressman Brooks requests. We also observe that members of the legislative branch, unlike members of the other coordinate branches of the federal government, have the unique power to pass a law giving themselves immunity from suit. Accordingly, it may be appropriate that any grant to them of more expansive absolute immunity than that already written into the Constitution come about by legislation rather than by judicial decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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