McMillian v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
88 F.3d 1573 · 1996
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably McMillian v. Monroe County (1997), Holloman ex rel. Holloman v. Harland (2004)
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Kentucky v. Graham · Pembaur v. City of Cincinnati · City of St. Louis v. Praprotnik
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as simply allowing otherwise admissible evidence to be submitted in inadmissible form at the summary judgment stage, though at trial it must be submitted in admissible form.” Id. at 1324[, 106 S.Ct. 2548 ] (quoting McMillian v. Johnson, 88 F.3d 1573, 1584 (11th Cir.1996), aff’d on other grounds, 520 U.S. 781 , 117 S.Ct. 1734 , 138 L.Ed.2d 1 (1997)) (emphasis by the court). The”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We base our decision not on a sheriff's 'label,' but on the county's lack of law enforcement power, of which a sheriff's designation as a state official is evidence.”). 15 . The county’s lack of control over the sheriff in the operation of the jail was also significant in Turquitt because”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“local government 'must have power in an area in order to be held liable for an official's acts in that area.'”
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.