Shillingford v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
634 F.2d 263 · 1981
Citation profile
209 federal appellate · 19 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 312 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Doe v. Taylor Independent School District (1994), Gilmere v. City of Atlanta (1985)
209 federal appellate · 19 district · 9 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
Relies on Baker v. McCollan · Carey v. Piphus · Miller v. California · Givhan v. Western Line Consolidated School District · Johnson v. Glick
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 312 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“caused severe injuries, was grossly disproportionate to the need for action under the circumstances and was inspired by malice rather than merely careless or unwise excess of zeal so that it amounted to an abuse of official power that shocks the conscience....”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. McFadden v. Lucas · Raley v. Fraser“That the results of the attack on Shillingford's person were not crippling was merely fortuitous. That same blow might have caused blindness or other permanent injury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the physical abuse [was] sufficiently severe, sufficiently disproportionate to the need presented and so deliberate and unjustified a misuse of the policeman's badge and bludgeon as to transcend the bounds of ordinary tort law and establish a deprivation of constitutional rights.”
2 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.