McGrath v. Gillis’s Empirical Analysis
44 F.3d 567 · 1995
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably Snyder v. Nolen (2004), Gregorich v. Lund (1995)
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The contours of the right must be sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“come forward with evidence that would reasonably permit the finder of fact to find in [its] favor on a material question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'sufficient consensus based on all relevant case law, indicating that the officials' conduct was unlawful’ is required.”
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.