Mitchell v. McNeil B H’s Empirical Analysis
487 F.3d 374 · 2007
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Eidson v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services (2007), Pittman v. Cuyahoga County Department of Children & Family Services (2011)
5 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
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Daniels v. Williams · Paul v. Davis · County of Sacramento v. Lewis · Duncan v. Walker
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here is no statutory or common law right, much less a constitutional right, to an investigation.” Mitchell v. McNeil, 487 F.3d 374, 378 (6th Cir.2007); see also Capogrosso v. Supreme Court of N.J., 588 F.3d 180, 184 (3d Cir.2009) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“To state a cognizable substantive due process claim, the plaintiff must allege 'conduct intended to injure in some way unjustifiable by any government interest' and that is 'conscience-shocking' in nature.”
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.