Sindram v. Suda’s Empirical Analysis
986 F.2d 1459 · 1993
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 33 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Atherton v. District of Columbia Office of the Mayor (2009), Rodriguez v. Weprin (1997)
10 federal appellate · 33 district · 6 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 Butz v. Economou · Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Mireles v. Waco · Mullis v. United Statescy Court for District of Nevada · Foster v. Walsh
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f immunity were not extended to clerks, courts would face the danger that disappointed litigants, blocked by the doctrine of absolute immunity from suing the judge directly would vent their wrath on clerks, court reporters, and other judicial adjuncts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]lerks, like judges, are immune from damage suits for performance of tasks that are an integral part of the judicial process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are taken in the complete absence of all jurisdiction.”
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.