McLin v. Trimble’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably Johnson v. Fankell (1997), Carrillo v. Rostro (1992)
36 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 Mitchell v. Forsyth · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. · Sherman v. United States · Granfinanciera, S.A. v. Nordberg
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o certified interlocutory order shall be considered if taken from an order overruling a motion for summary judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.