Shaw v. McCorkle’s Empirical Analysis
537 F.2d 1289 · 1976
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently January 1993 · most notably Garcia v. Wilson (1984), Woods v. Holy Cross Hospital (1979)
39 federal appellate · 1 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Monroe v. Pape · Franks v. Bowman Transportation Co. · McNeese v. Board of Education for Community Unit School District 187 Cahokia · Glidden Company v. Zdanok Et Al.
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It will be observed that the causes of action set forth in the statute result from breaches of duties which all persons owe to every other person, and do not cover the breach of a duty specially imposed by law on one for the benefit of another.... The declaration sets forth not a mere, assault and battery, or maiming, but a breach of the sheriff’s official duty, the assault and battery, or maiming, being the particular breach thereof; and the cause of action is this breach of the deputy sheriff’s official duties. The statute, therefore, does not apply.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“§ 15-1-35. Limitations applicable to actions for certain torts. All actions for assault, assault and battery, maiming, false imprisonment, malicious arrest, or menace, and all actions for slanderous words concerning the person or title, and for libels, shall be commenced within one year next after the cause of such action accrued, and not after.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the limitation ... which would be applicable in the courts of the state in which the federal court is sitting had an action seeking similar relief been brought under state law.”
2 later decisions 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.