Shanklin v. Fitzgerald’s Empirical Analysis
397 F.3d 596 · 2005
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Singletary v. Missouri Department of Corrections (2005), Johnson v. Arden (2010)
45 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Stuart v. General Motors Corp. · Davenport v. Riverview Gardens School District · Kneibert v. Thomson Newspapers, Michigan Inc. · Kristen Dhyne/cross v. Meiners Thriftway Inc /cross
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A gap in time between the protected activity and the adverse employment action weakens an inference of retaliatory motive.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]ith [a] lengthy delay [of ten months], any causal nexus inference tends to evaporate”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘Absent exceptional circumstances, we cannot consider issues not raised”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.