Shaw v. Neece’s Empirical Analysis
727 F.2d 947 · 1984
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably Coverdell v. Department of Social & Health Services (1987), Western United Realty, Inc. v. Isaacs (1984)
17 federal appellate · 5 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 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996) · 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 · Parratt v. Taylor · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Gomez v. Toledo · Maine v. Thiboutot
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] district court has the discretion to award a defendant attorneys' fees if the plaintiff's action is determined to be 'frivolous, unreasonable, or without foundation.' Prochaska v. Marcoux, 632 F.2d 848 , 853-854 (10th Cir.1980), cert. denied, 451 U.S. 984, 101 S.Ct. 2316, 68 L.Ed.2d 841 (1981) (citing Christiansburg Garment Co. v. EEOC ).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“access to the courts of the United States is a guaranteed constitutional right,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nielson v. Soltis
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.