Shump v. Balka’s Empirical Analysis
574 F.2d 1341 · 1978
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 14 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Yapp v. Excel Corp. (1999), United Nuclear Corporation v. Cranford Insurance Company (1990)
11 federal appellate · 14 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))
Relies on Laskey Bros. of West Virginia, Inc. v. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. · Nuesse v. Camp · The Inter-State National Bank of Kansas City v. Frank Luther, Trustee, Matter of Garden Grain & Seed Company, Inc., Bankrupt · United States v. Acord · Pipeliners Local Union No. 798 v. Ellerd
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When actions involving a common question of law or fact are pending before the court, it may order a joint hearing or trial of any or all the matters in issue in the actions; it may order all the actions consolidated; and it may make such orders concerning proceedings therein as may tend to avoid unnecessary costs or delay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is broader than either in that it includes other claims and may be used as a basis for affirmative relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may as a practical maiter impair or impede”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Patel
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.