Cooper v. O'Connor’s Empirical Analysis
99 F.2d 135 · 1938
Citation profile
161 federal appellate · 38 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 324 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Imbler v. Pachtman (1976), Barr v. Matteo (1959)
161 federal appellate · 38 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 1 · 12 U.S.C. § 192
Relies on United States v. Grimaud · Bradley v. Fisher · Spalding v. Vilas · Philadelphia Co. v. Stimson · Maryland Casualty Co. 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 324 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“having more or less connection with the general matters committed by law to his control or supervision.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage““In several of the cases in which the rule of immunity has been applied the rationalisation used has been that the particular defendant was a judicial officer, or was engaged in a judicial determination, or was so closely associated with the judicial process as to make necessary his protection from harassment in order to protect the judicial process. * * * “ * * * the rule as now declared in many cases has been applied, not only to officials judicial and quasi-judicial, but to executive officers generally, such as the Postmaster General, the Secretary and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Members of the United States Parole Board, the Parole Executive, the Warden of a Federal penitentiary, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the Chairman of the Tariff Commission, a building inspector, the United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and the Chief of Record and Pension Office of the War Department.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“... a quasi-judicial officer, such as a prosecuting attorney, who acts outside the scope of his jurisdiction and without authorization of law, cannot shelter himself from liability by the plea that he is acting under color of office .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. D.A.R. v. R.E.L. · D.A.R. v. R.E.L.
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.