Ricci v. Urso’s Empirical Analysis
974 F.2d 5 · 1992
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 16 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Cox III v. Hainey (2004), Rivera v. Murphy (1992)
7 federal appellate · 16 district ·
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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Malley v. Briggs · Hunter v. Bryant
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are entitled to qualified immunity 'so long as the presence of probable cause is at least arguable.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moses v. Mele
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.