Here are 6 cases that keep getting cited together. The anchor is Imbler v. Pachtman. It is cited the most. The other cases sit close to it. They argue about the same idea. They show up in the same footnotes. They belong to one another, in the way that lawyers mean when they say a line of cases.
| # | Case | Flag | Events | Cites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Imbler v. Pachtman Anchor | green | 24,592 | 7,107 |
| 2 | Butz v. Economou | green | 14,122 | 3,380 |
| 3 | Buckley v. Fitzsimmons | green | 8,982 | 2,370 |
| 4 | Burns v. Reed | green | 6,889 | 1,946 |
| 5 | Kalina v. Fletcher | green | 4,082 | 1,141 |
| 6 | Van de Kamp v. Goldstein Hot | green | 2,006 | 830 |