McMillian v. We Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
88 F.3d 1554 · 1996
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Moldowan v. City of Warren (2009), Rioux v. City of Atlanta (2008)
59 federal appellate · 5 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
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · United States v. Bagley
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]or the law to be clearly established, a court need not have found the very action in question unlawful; what is essential is that the action’s unlawfulness be apparent in light of pre-existing law. Jordan [v. Doe], 38 F.3d [1559,] 1566 [(11th Cir. 1994)]. We do not view the absence of a case factually similar to the extraordinary allegations in this case as an indication that the law was not clearly established that confining a pretrial detainee on death row to punish him is unconstitutional. Bell’s ’prohibition on any pretrial punishment, defined to include conditions imposed with an intent to punish, should have made it obvious to all reasonable officials in [defendants’] place that holding [plaintiff] on death row to punish him before he was tried violated [his] due process rights.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Investigators satisfy their obligations under Brady when they turn exculpatory and impeachment evidence over to the prosecutors.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ricks v. Pauch · Broam v. Bogan“so long as the core qualified immunity issue is raised on appeal, a final, collateral order is being appealed, and the appellate court has jurisdiction to hear the case, including challenges to the dis trict court’s determination that genuine issues of fact exist as to what conduct the defendant engaged in.”
2 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.