Mullinax v. Eb McElhenney E’s Empirical Analysis
817 F.2d 711 · 1987
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Rich v. Dollar (1988), Brown v. Crawford (1990)
18 federal appellate · 4 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Imbler v. Pachtman · Wilson v. Garcia · United States v. Kubrick · Havens Realty Corp. v. Coleman · Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY v. Tomanio
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the statute [of limitations] does not begin to run until the facts which would support a cause of action are apparent or should be apparent to a person with a reasonably prudent regard for his rights.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a prosecutor is entitled to absolute immunity for the factual investigation necessary to prepare a case, including interviewing witnesses before presenting them to a grand jury.” Mullinax v. McElhenney, 817 F.2d 711, 715 (11th Cir. 1987). However, without the benefit of a fully developed record, it is not possible to discern at this time whether the”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process,”
3 later decisions 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.