Posr v. Doherty

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a malicious prosecution claim can proceed even when a separate charge is supported by probable cause
• holding that plaintiff could maintain malicious -9- prosecution claim based on groundless charges of resisting arrest and assault even if probable cause existed for disorderly conduct charge
• holding that district court erred by “instruct[ing] that if the jury found probable cause supporting any of the three charges ... lodged against [plaintiff], no liability for malicious prosecution could be found as to any of the charges filed”
• holding that district court erred by “instruct[ing] that if the jury found probable cause supporting any of the three charges . . . lodged against [plaintiff], no liability for malicious prosecution could be found as to any of the charges filed”
• concluding that “pairing” each § 1983 claim with “state law tort counterpart[]” was “appropriate since, except for § 1983’s requirement that the tort be committed under color of state law, the essential elements of the two claims in each pair were substantially identical[]”
• explaining that it is the province of the jury to decide how chronologically to order details as well as how to reconcile or reject contrary evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

95 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Weyant v. Okst
  Second Circuit· 1996-12-03· cited 713×
• Liranzo v. United States
  Second Circuit· 2012-08-09· cited 289×
• Kee v. City of New York
  Second Circuit· 2021-08-30· cited 272×
• Oliveira v. Mayer
  Second Circuit· 1994-04-28· cited 219×
• Hall v. City of White Plains
  S.D. New York· 2002-01-25· cited 191×
• Pinaud v. County of Suffolk
  Second Circuit· 1995-04-06· cited 177×
• Lowth v. Town of Cheektowaga
  Second Circuit· 1996-05-03· cited 152×
• McKinney v. City of Middletown
  Second Circuit· 2022-09-26· cited 123×
• United States v. Mehdi Tehrani, Amir Alaei
  Second Circuit· 1995-02-23· cited 100×
• Chiaverini v. City of Napoleon
  Supreme Court· 2024-06-20· cited 86×
• Davis v. Rodriguez
  Second Circuit· 2004-04-14· cited 80×
• Tardif v. City of New York
  Second Circuit· 2021-03-18· cited 79×
• Shase Howse v. Thomas Hodous
  Sixth Circuit· 2020-03-18· cited 78×
• DiBlasio v. City of New York
  Second Circuit· 1996-12-13· cited 76×
• Ostroski v. Town of Southold
  E.D. New York· 2006-07-21· cited 67×
• Bailey v. City of New York
  E.D. New York· 2015-01-15· cited 67×
• Lloyd v. City of New York
  S.D. New York· 2017-03-31· cited 64×
• Alwan v. City of N.Y.
  E.D. New York· 2018-05-01· cited 54×
• Graham v. City of New York
  E.D. New York· 2013-03-06· cited 51×
• Kraft v. City of New York
  S.D. New York· 2010-04-21· cited 49×

Cites

38 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Harlow v. Fitzgerald
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-24· cited 22,846×
• Anderson v. Creighton
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-25· cited 12,768×
• Florida v. Royer
  Supreme Court· 1983-03-23· cited 6,728×
• United States v. Mendenhall
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-30· cited 6,313×
• Sibron v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 4,326×
• California v. Hodari D.
  Supreme Court· 1991-04-23· cited 3,670×
• United States v. Sharpe
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-20· cited 2,970×
• Henry v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1959-11-23· cited 1,968×
• Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Delgado
  Supreme Court· 1984-04-17· cited 1,950×
• Brower Ex Rel. Estate of Caldwell v. County of Inyo
  Supreme Court· 1989-03-21· cited 1,476×
• Broughton v. State
  New York Court of Appeals· 1975-07-10· cited 1,141×
• People v. Hicks
  New York Court of Appeals· 1986-10-23· cited 505×
• Posr v. Doherty
  Second Circuit· 1991-09-10· cited 232×
• People v. Chestnut
  New York Court of Appeals· 1980-07-08· cited 199×
• United States v. Henry Espinosa
  Tenth Circuit· 1986-01-24· cited 185×
• Lamont Warren v. Joseph L. Dwyer, Individually and in His Official Capacity as an Officer in the Police Dept. Of Hartford, Ct
  Second Circuit· 1990-06-25· cited 185×
• Martin v. City of Albany
  New York Court of Appeals· 1977-06-09· cited 158×
• United States v. Alirio Hastamorir, Hernan Lopez, Antonio Ledezma
  Eleventh Circuit· 1989-09-01· cited 134×
• Patricia Finnegan v. Richard Fountain
  Second Circuit· 1990-10-01· cited 126×