Rodney Taylor v. Michael Kavanagh

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that prosecutors are entitled to absolute immunity with respect to activities “intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process[]’’
• finding plea negotiations are absolutely protected: “[t]he plea negotiation is ‘an essential component’ of our system of criminal justice”
• stating obiter that investigatory and administrative work involved in “accumulating evidence” entitles prosecutor only to qualified immunity
• stating obiter that investigatory and administrative work involved in \accumulating evidence\ entitles prosecutor only to qualified immunity
• notwithstanding allegations of fraud and breach of the prosecutor's agreement not to make any recommendation as to a sentence, prosecutor's \conduct in the plea bargaining negotiations ... is protected by the doctrine of absolute prosecutorial immunity\
• notwithstanding allegations of fraud and breach of the prosecutor’s agreement not to make any recommendation as to a sentence, prosecutor’s “conduct in the plea bargaining negotiations ... is protected by the doctrine of absolute prosecutorial immunity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Connie Robison v. Susan R. Via and Harold Harrison
  Second Circuit· 1987-06-17· cited 642×
• Greg Myers, Etc. v. R. Kathleen Morris, Scott County Attorney, Etc.
  Eighth Circuit· 1987-04-09· cited 525×
• 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×
• Schrob v. Catterson
  Third Circuit· 1991-11-15· cited 356×
• Sheldon Barr v. Robert Abrams, Orestes J. Mihaly, Mark A. Tepper, Rebecca Mullane, William Bottiglieri, and Janey Renee O'COnnOr
  Second Circuit· 1987-01-28· cited 298×
• L. Patrick Gray, III v. Griffin Bell
  D.C. Circuit· 1983-06-21· cited 241×
• Pinaud v. County of Suffolk
  Second Circuit· 1995-04-06· cited 177×
• Ying Jing Gan v. The City Of New York
  Second Circuit· 1993-06-01· cited 174×
• Pfeiffer v. Hartford Fire Insurance Company
  Tenth Circuit· 1991-04-05· cited 162×
• Day v. Morgenthau
  Second Circuit· 1990-08-29· cited 116×
• Arthur B. Powers v. Glenn E. Coe and Austin J. McGuigan
  Second Circuit· 1984-02-10· cited 109×
• Robert F. Davis v. James Grusemeyer, Raymond Gurak, Donald Yingling, David v. Brody, and Charles E. Waldron
  Third Circuit· 1993-06-08· cited 98×
• Jona Goldschmidt v. Randy Patchett
  Seventh Circuit· 1982-08-16· cited 93×
• Romer v. Morgenthau
  S.D. New York· 2000-09-26· cited 92×
• Jane Doe v. Francis D. Phillips, Ii, Gerald D. D'amelia, Jr.
  Second Circuit· 1996-04-22· cited 90×
• Hauptmann v. Wilentz
  D. New Jersey· 1983-08-11· cited 88×
• Burke H. Mendenhall and Plaza-Hill Realty Corporation v. Steven Goldsmith
  Seventh Circuit· 1995-07-07· cited 77×
• Whelehan v. County of Monroe
  W.D. New York· 1983-02-22· cited 66×
• Lyles v. Sparks
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-03-19· cited 64×
• Karen Hammond v. Waldo Bales and Roger Hammond
  Tenth Circuit· 1988-04-08· cited 48×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Preiser v. Rodriguez
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-07· cited 9,100×
• Imbler v. Pachtman
  Supreme Court· 1976-03-02· cited 7,274×
• Santobello v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 5,257×
• Allen v. McCurry
  Supreme Court· 1980-12-09· cited 4,909×
• Butz v. Economou
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-29· cited 3,397×
• Hanrahan v. Hampton
  Supreme Court· 1980-08-11· cited 952×
• Gregoire v. Biddle
  Second Circuit· 1949-10-24· cited 876×
• Hampton v. Hanrahan
  Seventh Circuit· 1979-04-23· cited 368×
• Forsyth v. Kleindienst
  Third Circuit· 1979-05-22· cited 181×
• Briggs v. Goodwin
  D.C. Circuit· 1977-09-21· cited 153×
• Thomas Palermo and Sheldon Saltzman v. Warden, Green Haven State Prison, and Russell Oswald
  Second Circuit· 1976-11-01· cited 115×
• Helstoski v. Goldstein
  Third Circuit· 1977-03-28· cited 82×
• James Martin v. Mario Merola, District Attorney, Bronx County
  Second Circuit· 1976-02-05· cited 64×
• Whitfield v. Burns
  Supreme Court· 1977-05-16· cited 64×
• Zed Daniels v. Richard L. Kieser
  Seventh Circuit· 1978-11-07· cited 53×
• Lofland v. Meyers
  S.D. New York· 1977-09-28· cited 29×
• Halpern v. City of New Haven
  D. Connecticut· 1980-05-07· cited 14×
• People v. Taylor
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1978-09-28· cited 8×
• Taylor v. Kavanagh
  S.D. New York· 1980-06-26· cited 2×