Morrison v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
551 F.2d 939 · 1977
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2000 · most notably Rose 88-1634 v. Bartle a Reed W 88-1646 (1989), Singleton v. City of New York (1980)
14 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Barbara A. Nesmith and Richard A. Nesmith v. H. D. Alford · Henig v. Odorioso · Rinehart v. Locke · Niese v. Klos
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the prosecution was set on foot by the defendants] and that it terminated in a manner not unfavorable to the plaintiff[s]; (2) that it was instituted or procured by the cooperation of the defendants]; (3) that it lacked probable cause; and (4) that it was malicious.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blackmon v. Perez
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.