Shavers v. Attorney General’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State Ex Rel. Commissioner of Insurance v. North Carolina Rate Bureau (1980), Warner v. Leslie-Elliott Constructors, Inc. (1984)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 60 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to provide victims of motor vehicle accidents assured, adequate, and prompt reparation for certain economic losses.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“a court is not precluded from reaching issues before actual injuries or losses have occurred.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.