487 F. Supp. 2d 187 - Blake v. Race’s Empirical Analysis

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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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a]s to probable cause, the Second Circuit has noted that the presumption of probable cause created from a grand jury indictment “may be rebutted by evidence of various wrongful acts on the part of the police: If plaintiff is to succeed in his malicious prosecution action after he has been indicted, he must establish that the indictment was produced by fraud, perjury, the suppression of evidence or other police conduct undertaken in bad faith.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Coggins v. County of Nassau

2. “[W]e hold that the District Court did not err in granting defendants’ motion for summary judgment on the basis that [plaintiffs] testimony — which was largely unsubstantiated by any other direct evidence — was “so replete with inconsistencies and improbabilities” that no reasonable juror would undertake the suspension of disbelief necessary to credit the allegations made in his complaint.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Crews v. County of Nassau

3. “[The] defendants cannot hide behind the decision of the [district attorney] to prosecute when it was [the] defendants who allegedly fed the facts to [the police informant], thereby providing the unknowing [district attorney] with what may be considered a fabricated eyewitness, who made the line-up identification and provided testimony.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thagard v. Lauber