Anilao v. Spota

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that absolute immunity applies “as long as a prosecutor acts with colorable authority. . . regardless of motivation”
• holding that the plaintiff’s claim that “his neighbors’ complaints which led to the charges were false” were “insufficient” to show bad faith or harassment, and did not “overcome the presumption that federal courts should not interfere in ongoing state court matters”
• holding that the plaintiff’s claim that “his neighbors’ complaints which led to the charges were false” were “insufficient” to show bad faith or harassment, and did not “overcome the presumption that federal courts should not interfere in ongoing state court matters”
• stating that district court correctly determined, based on the pleadings, that Spota and subordinate prosecutor “were not entitled to absolute immunity for their conduct during the investigative stage of the prosecution”
• rejecting a claim of county liability for the conduct of county prosecutors because “there was no evidence of a constitutional violation” at the investigative stage
• noting that the “law does not require a malicious prosecution plaintiff to prove his innocence, or even that the termination of the criminal proceeding was indicative of innocence . . . [the] burden is to demonstrate a final termination that is not inconsistent with innocence.”

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Cites

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

• Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-06· cited 41,449×
• Harlow v. Fitzgerald
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-24· cited 22,846×
• Pearson v. Callahan
  Supreme Court· 2009-01-21· cited 13,928×
• Imbler v. Pachtman
  Supreme Court· 1976-03-02· cited 7,274×
• Malley v. Briggs
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-05· cited 6,748×
• Ziglar v. Abbasi
  Supreme Court· 2017-06-19· cited 2,879×
• Buckley v. Fitzsimmons
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-24· cited 2,450×
• Gregoire v. Biddle
  Second Circuit· 1949-10-24· cited 876×
• Van de Kamp v. Goldstein
  Supreme Court· 2009-01-26· cited 855×
• Kenneth O. Ashelman v. Hon. Gary Pope, Judge Division I, Mohave County Superior Court Mohave County Attorney's Office
  Ninth Circuit· 1986-08-12· cited 821×
• Frank X. Losacco v. City of Middletown, Sebastian J. Garafalo, George Aylward, Joseph Bibisi, John Chowaniec, and Relford Ward
  Second Circuit· 1995-12-05· cited 817×
• Howard E. Mandell v. The County of Suffolk and John Gallagher, Police Commissioner
  Second Circuit· 2003-01-17· cited 669×
• Lore v. City of Syracuse
  Second Circuit· 2012-02-02· cited 573×
• R.G. Group, Inc., and R.G. Restaurant Associates v. The Horn & Hardart Company, and Bojangles' of America, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1984-12-11· cited 496×
• United States v. Sineneng-Smith
  Supreme Court· 2020-05-07· cited 483×
• Kulwicki v. Dawson
  Third Circuit· 1992-07-02· cited 452×
• Ricciuti v. N.Y.C. Transit Authority
  Second Circuit· 1997-08-21· cited 409×
• People v. Calbud, Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1980-02-14· cited 377×
• Rivera v. Rochester Genesee Regional Transportation Authority
  Second Circuit· 2012-12-21· cited 376×
• Segal v. City Of New York
  Second Circuit· 2006-08-03· cited 324×

Other cases named Anilao v. Spota

3 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Anilao v. Spota
  E.D. New York· 2011-03-31· cited 60×
• Anilao v. Spota
  E.D. New York· 2018-11-28· cited 16×
• Anilao v. Spota
  E.D. New York· 2013-01-25· cited 15×