United States v. McGreevy’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions

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

1. “[The off-duty police officer] did not hold his Federal Express position because he was a police officer. He carefully separated the two jobs. He knew of no understanding between Federal Express and the DEA for the disposal of contraband.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. McRae · 767 So. 2d 470 - State v. Iaccarino

2. “At the outset we reject the appellants’ contention that there was insufficient state involvement in Gibson’s actions to render them “under color of state law.” 42 U.S.C. § 1983 . Gibson himself testified that he responded to Meshriy’s call as a police officer rather than as a bank employee. Furthermore, it was established at trial that using off-duty police officers as “security tellers” at the bank was part of a police department “secondary hiring” program, and that the police department selected the officers for the program. An officer who had been instrumental in establishing the program testified that if an officer believed a crime had been committed, or was directed by a bank officer to stop an individual, his or her primary duty was to the department, not to the bank, Gibson flashed his police identification at Traver, moreover, and introduced himself as a police officer before instructing Traver to sit down on the platform. All these indicia of state action compel the conclusion that Gibson was acting “under color of state law” when he responded to Meshriy’s call for help.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lawson v. Wiggins