Adams v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that an adoption caseworker’s investigative and supervisory conduct undertaken outside the judicial context was not absolutely immune
• denying immunity to state caseworkers for pre-adoption investigations and post-placement monitoring
• “Judicial immunity is a creature of common law and the courts are responsible for shaping and monitoring the course of the common law.”
• “We cannot say there are sufficient accountability safeguards inherent to or routinely used ... to warrant the granting of absolute immunity in this context.”
• declining to extend judicial immunity to adoption caseworkers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Okun
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2013-01-10· cited 13×
• Widoff v. Wiens
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2002-05-16· cited 12×
• Cunningham v. Florida Department of Children & Families
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-03-22· cited 10×
• Gabriel Garibay v. Hon. johnson/fox
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2025-03-13· cited 6×
• Griggs v. Oasis Adoption Services, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2016-10-06· cited 2×
• Gabriel Garibay v. Hon. Kellie Johnson William Fox, Az Constable Ethics
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2024-02-14
• Gabriel Garibay v. Hon. Kellie Johnson William Fox, Az Constable Ethics
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2024-03-28

Cites

24 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Buckley v. Fitzsimmons
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-24· cited 2,450×
• Forrester v. White
  Supreme Court· 1988-01-12· cited 2,252×
• Ontiveros v. Borak
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-07-05· cited 306×
• Stone v. Arizona Highway Commission
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1963-04-25· cited 255×
• David Glen Meyers v. Contra Costa County Department of Social Services, Defendants
  Ninth Circuit· 1987-03-16· cited 190×
• Ryan v. State
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1982-12-17· cited 186×
• Robichaud v. Ronan
  Ninth Circuit· 1965-10-08· cited 148×
• Babcock v. State
  Washington Supreme Court· 1991-04-04· cited 136×
• Grimm v. Arizona Board of Pardons & Paroles
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1977-04-11· cited 127×
• Charles Ashbrook and Master Chef, Inc. v. Harlan Hoffman
  Seventh Circuit· 1980-05-19· cited 110×
• John Hodorowski and Jeraldine Hodorowski v. Ann Ray, Mary Ellen Burns and Texas Department of Human Resources, Defendants
  Fifth Circuit· 1988-06-14· cited 103×
• Barr v. Day
  Washington Supreme Court· 1994-10-06· cited 89×
• United Bank of Arizona v. Allyn
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1990-04-17· cited 82×
• Meyers v. Contra Costa County Department of Social Services
  Supreme Court· 1987-10-05· cited 78×
• Scott v. County of Los Angeles
  California Court of Appeal· 1994-07-29· cited 68×
• Estate of Hernandez v. Bd. of Regents
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1994-01-13· cited 65×
• Acevedo v. Pima County Adult Probation Department
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1984-09-25· cited 64×
• Lavit v. Superior Court
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1992-10-01· cited 49×
• Achterhof v. Selvaggio
  Sixth Circuit· 1989-10-06· cited 49×
• Angus Medical Co. v. Digital Equipment Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1992-03-31· cited 33×