Dean v. Shirer’s Empirical Analysis
547 F.2d 227 · 1976
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2006
1 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Paul v. Davis · Moor v. County of Alameda · Bradley v. Fisher · Pargoud v. United States
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are of opinion false imprisonment and assault are ‘injuries to the person’ under S.C.Code § 10-209 [15-5-90] and as such do survive. Brewer [Brewer v. Graydon, 233 S.C. 124 , 103 S.E.2d 767 (1958)] cites malicious prosecution, slander and fraud and deceit as the exceptions to the statute and in the absence of a controlling South Carolina decision, no other exception being called to our attention, we give effect to the literal wording of the statute as we construe it and hold the cause of action survives as it may be equated to assault or false imprisonment.” 547 F.2d at 230 .”
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.