Griesel v. Hamlin’s Empirical Analysis
963 F.2d 338 · 1992
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably McMillian v. We Johnson (1996), Taylor v. Adams (2000)
29 federal appellate ·
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 Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Budinich v. Becton Dickinson & Co. · Nixon v. Fitzgerald
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“crucial issue ... is whether the ... immunity ... is an immunity from suit rather than simply a defense to substantive liability.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that small class which finally determine claims of right separable from, and collateral to, rights asserted in the action, too important to be denied review and too independent of the cause itself to require that appellate consideration be deferred until the whole case is adjudicated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he entitlement is an immunity from suit rather than a mere defense to liability; and like an absolute immunity, it is effectively lost if a case is erroneously permitted to go to trial.”
2 later decisions 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.