Cousin v. Small

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that prosecutor’s alleged solicitation of false testimony was protected by absolute immunity because suspect already was identified and probable cause already was established
• holding that prosecutor acts as advocate in connection with interview “intended to secure evidence that would be used in the presentation of the state’s case at the pending trial of an already identified suspect”
• holding that “the suppression of exculpatory evidence is shielded by absolute immunity”
• holding that absolute immunity is \functional rather than temporal\
• holding a showing of deliberate indifference usually requires a plaintiff to “demonstrate a pattern of violations”
• finding that “detention of witnesses to prevent them from testifying in criminal proceedings, while unlawful and improper, is nonetheless shielded by absolute immunity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

65 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Goodman v. Harris County
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-06-10· cited 431×
• Hathaway v. Bazany
  Fifth Circuit· 2007-11-01· cited 408×
• Estate of Davis Ex Rel. McCully v. City of North Richland Hills
  Fifth Circuit· 2005-04-11· cited 378×
• Calvin Walker v. Beaumont Indep School Dist
  Fifth Circuit· 2019-09-18· cited 373×
• Rios v. City of Del Rio TX
  Fifth Circuit· 2006-03-27· cited 289×
• Al-Kidd v. Ashcroft
  Ninth Circuit· 2009-09-04· cited 209×
• George Trammell v. Kevin Fruge
  Fifth Circuit· 2017-08-17· cited 192×
• Genzler v. Longanbach
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-06-07· cited 165×
• United States of America, Ex Rel. John Doe v. Dow Chemical Company
  Fifth Circuit· 2003-08-29· cited 135×
• Bolton v. City of Dallas, Tex.
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-08-21· cited 103×
• KRL v. Moore
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-09-27· cited 98×
• Randy Cole v. Michael Hunter
  Fifth Circuit· 2015-09-25· cited 78×
• Reddy Annappareddy v. Catherine Pascale
  Fourth Circuit· 2021-04-26· cited 77×
• United States of America, Ex Rel. Ronald K. Bain v. Georgia Gulf Corp.
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-09-27· cited 53×
• Lampton v. Diaz
  Fifth Circuit· 2011-04-19· cited 45×
• Elphage v. Gautreaux
  M.D. Louisiana· 2013-09-03· cited 43×
• Suzanne Wooten v. John Roach, Sr.
  Fifth Circuit· 2020-07-06· cited 37×
• Arthur Mitchell v. City of Naples
  Fifth Circuit· 2018-07-10· cited 36×
• Waltman v. Payne
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-07-10· cited 34×
• Hoog-Watson v. Guadalupe County, Tex.
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-12-16· cited 33×

Cites

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

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Imbler v. Pachtman
  Supreme Court· 1976-03-02· cited 7,274×
• Chambers v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-21· cited 5,756×
• Stump v. Sparkman
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-05· cited 5,547×
• Buckley v. Fitzsimmons
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-24· cited 2,450×
• Briscoe v. LaHue
  Supreme Court· 1983-03-07· cited 2,053×
• Burns v. Reed
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-30· cited 1,988×
• Tenney v. Brandhove
  Supreme Court· 1951-05-21· cited 1,470×
• Marian Fontenot, Etc. v. The Upjohn Company
  Fifth Circuit· 1986-01-17· cited 1,453×
• Kalina v. Fletcher
  Supreme Court· 1997-12-10· cited 1,173×
• Firstier Mortgage Co. v. Investors Mortgage Insurance
  Supreme Court· 1991-01-15· cited 362×
• Hill v. City of New York
  Second Circuit· 1995-01-17· cited 265×
• Chaplin v. NationsCredit Corp.
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-10-08· cited 198×
• Barrett v. Atlantic Richfield Co.
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-09-19· cited 160×
• Leo Henzel v. Richard Gerstein, Robert L. Shevin, Attorney General
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-12-21· cited 157×
• Leonard R. Milstein v. Stephen L. Cooley Robert B. Foltz Countyof Los Angeles, Opinion
  Ninth Circuit· 2001-07-20· cited 150×
• Lopez House v. Scott Belford
  Seventh Circuit· 1992-02-12· cited 140×
• Kerr v. Lyford
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-04-14· cited 139×
• William Douglas Carter v. William T. Burch Vernon Beamer, and John R. Isom Jeffrey Brown
  Fourth Circuit· 1994-09-09· cited 137×
• William G. Moore, Jr. v. Joseph B. Valder
  D.C. Circuit· 1996-01-23· cited 127×