Parker v. Dodgion’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2019
13 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 Imbler v. Pachtman · Forrester v. White · Antoine v. Byers & Anderson, Inc. · LaLonde v. Eissner · Robichaud v. Ronan
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ourts that have addressed this issue have uniformly held that psychologists appointed by the court to conduct psychological evaluations of parties involved in custody disputes perform a function integral to the judicial process and are therefore immune from suit. Several reasons support this conclusion. First, if these individuals are subject to suit, they will be much less willing to serve the court in such a capacity. Second, a psychologist who agrees to fill the role of court-appointed evaluator will be less likely to offer the disinterested, objective opinion the court seeks in making such an appointment if he or she is subject to suit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Stone v. Glass · Politi v. Tyler“'in the performance of an integral part of the judicial process' '' Id. (quoting Bailey v. Utah State Bar, 846 P.2d 1278, 1280 (Utah 1993)). 1 53 In Parker v. Dodgion, we applied this”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“judges are immune from suit for actions taken in their judicial capacities, except when those actions have been taken in the absence of subject matter jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.