70 Md. App. 307 - Shapiro v. Chapman’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2014
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Parratt v. Taylor · Perry v. Sindermann · Daniels v. Williams · Baker v. McCollan
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would not have been able to recover twice for the same tort merely because the wrong gave rise to alternative theories of recovery,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the elements of damages recoverable in an action under Sec. 1983 [for an unprovoked assault] are identical to those recoverable in a common law action”
1 later decision 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.