McBride v. Grice’s Empirical Analysis
576 F.3d 703 · 2009
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Stokes v. Board of Education (2010), Sow v. Fortville Police Department (2011)
8 federal appellate ·
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 Beck v. State of Ohio · Gramenos v. Jewel Companies, Inc. · Wayne Thomas Ahlers and Nina Ahlers v. Ronald J. Schebil · Woods v. City of Chicago · Willie Jacobs and Linda Siller v. City of Chicago
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] plaintiff claiming that he was arrested without probable cause carries the burden of establishing the absence of probable cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonably believes that the victim is telling the truth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tenorio v. Harris
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.