Shango v. Jurich’s Empirical Analysis
681 F.2d 1091 · 1982
Citation profile
141 federal appellate · 10 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 352 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2015 · most notably Olim v. Wakinekona (1983), Roland Machinery Company v. Dresser Industries Inc (1984)
141 federal appellate · 10 district · 18 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 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell
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 352 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[a] liberty interest is of course a substantive interest of an individual; it cannot be the right to demand needless formality.' Process is not an end in itself. Its constitutional purpose is to protect a substantive interest to which the individual has a legitimate claim of entitlement.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“intentional or purposeful discrimination”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Jauregui v. Acosta D · Jackson v. H“implies that the decisionmaker singled out a particular group for disparate treatment and selected his course of action at least in part for the purpose of causing its adverse effects on the identifiable group.”
7 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.