No. 98-9205’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
13 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Mejia v. City of New York (2000), Esmont v. City of New York (2005)
13 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Haines v. Kerner · Zinermon v. Burch · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · City of Houston v. Hill
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the termination is with prejudice, a different analysis prevails. Murphy explains that if the outcome “was the result of a compromise to which the accused agreed, or an act of mercy requested or accepted by the accused, ... it is not a termination in favor of the accused for purposes of a malicious prosecution claim.” ... But if the prosecution ended because of “a constitutional or other privilege ... such as the right to a speedy trial,” a malicious prosecution claim is not precluded.... “[T]he accused should not be required to relinquish such a privilege in order to vindicate his right to be free from malicious prosecution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) that the defendant initiated a prosecution against the plaintiff, (2) that the defendant lacked probable cause to believe the proceeding could succeed, (3) that the defendant acted with malice, ... (4) that the prosecution was terminated in the plaintiff's favor,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]uch a conspiracy is actionable under § 1985 only if it involves a discriminatory animus based on race or some other invidious classification.” Posr v. Court Officer Shield. #207, 180 F.3d 409, 419 (2d Cir.1999). Because plaintiff has not alleged any such”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.