521 F. Supp. 87 - Shadid v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2017
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Owen v. City of Independence · Familias Unidas v. Briscoe · Van Ooteghem v. Gray · Cannon v. US Acoustics Corporation
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendants correctly observe that ‘no conflict can exist so long as these defendants make common cause,’ but there is no way of knowing if and when that strategic posture may change.”) . The Court notes that Maryland law provides that local governments must indemnify their employees”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carrero v. Farrelly“high potential for conflicting loyalties”
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.