Mee v. Ortega’s Empirical Analysis
967 F.2d 423 · 1992
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Langley v. Adams County (1993), Wilson v. Kelkhoff (1996)
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Anderson v. Creighton · Morrissey v. Brewer · Malley v. Briggs · Imbler v. Pachtman
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In contrast to the preparation of pretrial bond or presentence reports [at issue in Tripati], other decisions involving the revocation of probation or parole by a probation or parole officer warrant only qualified, not absolute, immunity because such decisions are farther removed from the judicial process and are not initiated by courts.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A parole] officer is not by this recommendation converted into a prosecutor committed to convict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Judges are protected by absolute immunity in civil rights actions from liability based on their judicial actions. At the same time, only qualified immunity protects a judge’s decision to fire a probation officer. Absolute immunity also protects prosecutors from damages arising from the presentation of testimony at a criminal trial. But prosecutors are only qualifiedly immune when they give legal advice to policemen. Police officers are absolutely immune from a suit for damages for their testimony at a criminal trial, even if the testimony is perjurious. However, because of the functional difference in the activities at issue, a police officer seeking an arrest warrant may only claim the protection of qualified immunity.”
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.