Schloss v. Bouse

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a prosecutor’s demand that the plaintiffs in that case “execute releases in favor of the policemen and the municipalities” in exchange for the decision to forgo prosecution was subject to absolute immunity
• granting prosecutors absolute immunity for conditioning the decision not to prosecute upon the plaintiffs signing liability releases
• applying absolute immunity “[t]hough the prosecutor’s willingness to drop some charges is . . . conditioned on the defendants’ agreement to plead guilty to other charges, and . . . could be viewed as coercive”
• “We think that, as a matter of logic, absolute immunity must also protect the prosecutor from damages suits based on his decision not to prosecute.”
• a prosecutor’s decision not to bring charges is protected by absolute prosecutorial immunity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Sebastian Mangiafico v. Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General, John Armstrong, and Theresa Lantz, Docket No. 05-5465-Cv
  Second Circuit· 2006-12-19· cited 747×
• Scotto v. Almenas
  Second Circuit· 1998-05-05· cited 563×
• In Re NYSE Specialists Securities Litigation
  Second Circuit· 2007-09-18· cited 454×
• Shmueli v. City of New York
  Second Circuit· 2005-09-14· cited 159×
• Jane Doe v. Francis D. Phillips, Ii, Gerald D. D'amelia, Jr.
  Second Circuit· 1996-04-22· cited 90×
• Anilao v. Spota
  Second Circuit· 2022-03-09· cited 82×
• Bernard v. County of Suffolk
  Second Circuit· 2004-01-30· cited 55×
• Collins v. City of New York
  E.D. New York· 2013-02-15· cited 33×
• Quartararo v. Catterson
  E.D. New York· 1996-01-25· cited 30×
• Dean Kent v. Jared Katz, Individually and as a Police Officer for the Town of Colchester
  Second Circuit· 2002-12-10· cited 26×
• Varricchio v. County of Nassau
  E.D. New York· 2010-03-17· cited 21×
• Peterson v. Tomaselli
  S.D. New York· 2007-01-16· cited 16×
• McKeon v. Daley
  N.D. New York· 2000-05-24· cited 12×
• Levy v. Lerner
  E.D. New York· 1994-05-26· cited 10×
• Smith v. Gribetz
  S.D. New York· 1997-03-06· cited 4×
• Contes v. Porr
  S.D. New York· 2004-11-16· cited 3×
• Elk v. Townson
  S.D. New York· 1993-12-15· cited 2×
• Opala v. Watt
  W.D. Oklahoma· 2005-05-20· cited 2×
• California Public Employees' Retirement System v. New York Stock Exchange, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2007-09-18· cited 2×
• Thompson v. Li Ka-Shing
  S.D. New York· 2003-03-24· cited 1×

Cites

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

• Harlow v. Fitzgerald
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-24· cited 22,846×
• Imbler v. Pachtman
  Supreme Court· 1976-03-02· cited 7,274×
• Stump v. Sparkman
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-05· cited 5,547×
• Santobello v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 5,257×
• Butz v. Economou
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-29· cited 3,397×
• Forrester v. White
  Supreme Court· 1988-01-12· cited 2,252×
• Gregoire v. Biddle
  Second Circuit· 1949-10-24· cited 876×
• Pulliam v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 857×
• Connie Robison v. Susan R. Via and Harold Harrison
  Second Circuit· 1987-06-17· cited 642×
• Spalding v. Vilas
  Supreme Court· 1896-03-02· cited 492×
• Town of Newton v. Rumery
  Supreme Court· 1987-03-09· cited 427×
• 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×
• 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×
• Yaselli v. Goff
  Second Circuit· 1926-04-05· cited 285×
• Standard Oil Co. v. City of Lincoln
  Supreme Court· 1927-12-05· cited 223×
• Frank S. Dorman v. Michael Higgins
  Second Circuit· 1987-06-09· cited 154×
• Rodney Taylor v. Michael Kavanagh
  Second Circuit· 1981-01-26· cited 140×
• Jacobson v. Rose
  Ninth Circuit· 1978-11-29· cited 95×
• Belton v. Pilvax Printing Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1980-10-06· cited 86×
• Norman F. Dacey v. Peter C. Dorsey
  Second Circuit· 1978-01-12· cited 73×