Rheuark v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
628 F.2d 297 · 1980
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 5 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 196 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2017 · most notably State v. Chapple (1983), Poythress v. Kessler (1986)
84 federal appellate · 5 district · 42 state decisions — followed in 21 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.
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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Barker v. Wingo · Pierson v. Ray · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California
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 196 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) prevention of oppressive incarceration pending appeal; (2) minimization of anxiety and concern of those convicted awaiting the outcome of their appeals; and (3) limitation of the possibility that a convicted person's grounds for appeal, and his or her defenses in case of reversal or retrial, might be impaired.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[D]ue process can be denied by any substantial retardation of the appellate process, including an excessive delay in the furnishing of a transcription of testimony necessary for completion of an appellate record.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[l]ength of delay, the reason for the delay, the defendant's assertion of his right, and prejudice to the defendant.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.