Mitchell v. Forsyth

How courts have described this case

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

• holding notice adequate even when final rule setting standard for allowable exposure of airborne lead in workplace was twice as stringent as proposed rule
• 15% level of minority and women employment with regards to city’s.major construction contracts
• statute designed to deter or prevent government from improperly invading individual privacy
• “the decision of the Attorney General, or a prosecuting attorney, to initiate a prosecution is not made in a vacuum ... [t]he right to make the decision ... must include some limited right to gather necessary information”
• If Attorney General's authorization of warrantless wiretap was made in attempt to secure information to determine whether to initiate a criminal prosecution, then he was entitled to absolute immunity. Case remanded to district court for development of the record

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Thaddeus-X and Earnest Bell, Jr. v. Blatter
  Sixth Circuit· 1999-03-08· cited 2,642×
• Greg Myers, Etc. v. R. Kathleen Morris, Scott County Attorney, Etc.
  Eighth Circuit· 1987-04-09· cited 525×
• Hobson v. Wilson
  D.C. Circuit· 1984-06-08· cited 501×
• Kulwicki v. Dawson
  Third Circuit· 1992-07-02· cited 452×
• Richard L. Windsor v. The Tennessean
  Sixth Circuit· 1984-01-23· cited 368×
• Josiah Haynesworth and Fred Hancock v. Frank P. Miller, Chief, Law Enforcement Section, Office of the Corporation Counsel, (Two Cases)
  D.C. Circuit· 1987-05-29· cited 367×
• Coastal Steel Corp. v. Tilghman Wheelabrator Ltd.
  Third Circuit· 1983-05-17· cited 365×
• Schrob v. Catterson
  Third Circuit· 1991-11-15· cited 356×
• Harold Katz and Ruth Katz v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company
  Third Circuit· 1992-08-06· cited 303×
• United States v. Juan Manuel Bautista, United States of America v. Javier Cabrera-Martinez
  Ninth Circuit· 1982-08-24· cited 274×
• United States v. Manbeck
  Fourth Circuit· 1984-09-11· cited 267×
• L. Patrick Gray, III v. Griffin Bell
  D.C. Circuit· 1983-06-21· cited 241×
• Washington v. Lambert
  Ninth Circuit· 1996-10-28· cited 225×
• Randolph-Sheppard Vendors of America v. Caspar W. Weinberger, National Council of State Agencies for the Blind v. Caspar W. Weinberger
  D.C. Circuit· 1986-07-30· cited 213×
• Acierno v. Cloutier
  Third Circuit· 1994-10-18· cited 160×
• Alan McSurely v. John L. McClellan Thomas Ratliff, Individually and as Sometime Commonwealth Attorney for Pike County, Kentucky
  D.C. Circuit· 1982-12-10· cited 153×
• Venen v. Sweet
  Third Circuit· 1985-03-29· cited 140×
• Morton H. Halperin v. Henry A. Kissinger
  D.C. Circuit· 1986-12-05· cited 119×
• Collins on Behalf of Collins v. Tabet
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1991-02-04· cited 118×
• United States v. Abraham Ceballos and Efrain Adames
  Second Circuit· 1987-02-13· cited 111×