Houston v. Partee’s Empirical Analysis
978 F.3d 362 · 1992
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Broam v. Bogan (2003), Yarris v. County of Delaware (2006)
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Mitchell v. Forsyth · Imbler v. Pachtman · Burns v. Reed · Nixon v. Fitzgerald · Alexander 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not entitled to any more immunity than the defendant police officers”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Broam v. Bogan · Broam v. Bogan“). However, where the role as advocate has not yet begun, namely prior to indictment, or where it has concluded, absolute immunity does not apply. 34 We find the decision of the Seventh Circuit in Houston analogous to the present situation. In Houston, after the defendants were convicted at trial and the prosecutors were no longer personally involved in the prosecution of the case, the prosecutors discovered evidence exculpating the defendants. Id. The Seventh Circuit held that the prosecutors' knowledge of and failure to disclose this evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Spurlock v. Thompson“(1) whether a historical or common law basis exists for granting an official absolute immunity from suit for performing a particular function; (2) whether performing the function poses special risks of vexatious litigation; and (3) whether sufficient safeguards exist to prevent abuses of power.”
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.