County of Riverside v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
546 federal appellate · 194 district · 565 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,215 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Albright v. Oliver (1994), California v. Acevedo (1991)
546 federal appellate · 194 district · 565 state decisions — followed in 40 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMcLaughlin v. County of Riverside (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Allen v. Wright · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Gerstein v. Pugh
Cited together with Gerstein v. Pugh · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Sosna v. Iowa
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 2,215 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“delays for the purpose of gathering additional evidence to justify the arrest, a delay motivated by ill will against the arrested individual, or delay for delay's sake.”
81 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'so inherently transitory that the trial court will not have even enough time to rule on a motion for class certification before the proposed representative's individual interest expires.' " County of Riverside v. McLaughlin, 500 U.S. 44 , 52, 111 S.Ct. 1661 , 114 L.Ed.2d 49 (1991) (quoting Geraghty,supra, at 399, 100 S.Ct. 1202 ), in turn citing Gerstein v. Pugh, 420 U.S. 103 , 110, n. 11, 95 S.Ct. 854 , 43 L.Ed.2d 54 (1975). Invoking this doctrine, respondent argues that defendants can strategically use Rule 68 offers to "pick off”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“demonstrate the existence of a bona fide emergency or other extraordinary circumstance”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.