McKinney v. George’s Empirical Analysis
726 F.2d 1183 · 1984
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably United States v. Berkowitz (1991), Gramenos v. Jewel Companies, Inc. (1986)
60 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 state decisions
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 Terry v. Ohio · Wolff v. McDonnell · Brinegar v. United States · Payton v. New York · Hewitt v. Helms
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f policemen arrest a person on the basis of a private citizen's complaint that if true would justify the arrest, and they reasonably believe it is true, they cannot be held liable for a violation of the Constitution merely because it later turns out that the complaint was unfounded.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a state can if it wants confer extra liberties which the due process clause will then also protect”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a series of cases ... hold that if a state gives prisoners (whose natural liberty has been suspended) a form of liberty, as by entitling them to release before the end of their terms if they behave themselves for a prescribed period, the state may not deprive them of that liberty, any more than it may deprive a person of his natural, liberty, without due process of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.