Shakespeare v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2005 · most notably Lucille C. Place v. Mrs. Mary C. Shepherd (1971), Sykes v. State (1974)
4 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Link v. Wabash Railroad · United States v. Price · Linkletter v. Walker · Goss v. Board of Education · Collins v. Hardyman
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.
““This action, filed in pro. per., is a typical example of the kind of action being filed with increasing frequency under the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981-1986 . Having been defeated in state court proceedings and being unhappy and somewhat humiliated and frustrated by the results of such proceedings, these persons lash out at judges, attorneys, witnesses, court functionaries, newspapers and anyone else in convenient range, terming all of them corruptly evil and charging them with perjury and conspiracy in a last desperate effort to re-litigate the issues on which they have once lost and hoping to secure sizeable damages to boot.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jemzura v. Belden““This is particularly important in the Civil Rights Act area, where on scrutiny it is often revealed that a plaintiff is trying to use the Civil Rights Act as a way of ‘appealing’ a state court judgment, or where the Plaintiff is trying to raise solely state law claims, e. g., false imprisonment or malicious prosecution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jemzura v. Belden““ ‘. . . Plaintiff set forth with some specificity the acts allegedly depriving her of Constitutional rights, as well as the nature of the Constitutional rights involved in each instance. (Emphasis added.) Shakespere v. Wilson, 40 F. R. D. 500 (S. D. Cal. 1966).’ ””
1 later decision 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.