Shields’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Taylor Pipeline Construction, Inc. v. Directional Road Boring, Inc. (2006), 554 F. Supp. 2d 693 - Johnson v. RGIS Inventory Specialists (2007)
2 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · City of Canton v. Harris · United States v. Procter & Gamble Co. · Douglas Oil Company of California v. Petrol Stops Northwest
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“facts supporting an arrest are placed before an independent intermediary such as a ... grand jury, the intermediary's decision breaks the chain of causation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“remains intact if it can be shown that the deliberations of that intermediary were in some way tainted by the actions of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“plaintiff must initially allege that an official policy or custom `was a cause in fact of the deprivation of rights inflicted.'”
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.