Shahi v. Madden’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably J.A. Morrissey, Inc. v. Smejkal (2010), State v. Santimore (2009)
2 district · 30 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 BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore · State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Campbell · Brueckner v. Norwich University · Lent v. Huntoon · Lillicrap v. Martin
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e will reverse the trial court's decision [on such a motion] only where, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict, we conclude that there has been an abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'Any surprise engendered by allowance of the proposed amendment could have been eliminated by requesting a continuance of the trial.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“defendant waged a campaign of terror against plaintiffs motivated in part by sectarian and racial bias,”
1 later decision 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.