Rock v. McCoy’s Empirical Analysis
763 F.2d 394 · 1985
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Bell v. Wolfish · Rizzo v. Goode · Hays v. Jefferson County · McClelland v. Facteau
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the State of Oklahoma’s school where all Oklahoma police officers are trained”); Okla.Opin.Atty.Gen. No. 85-29, at 2 (July 30, 1985) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meade v. Grubbs
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.