Shenkman v. O'Malley’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2000
2 federal appellate ·
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 Stern v. Board of Levee Commissioners · Reynolds v. Pegler · Hamilton v. . Eno · Ashcroft v. . Hammond · Bingham v. . Gaynor
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a man, with equal physique, attacks another with his fists, it may not justify the use of a firearm in response.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“One in self-defense is not confined to parrying the thrusts of his assailant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“reasonably proportionate to the magnitude of the ... first attack.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.