Shelton III v. City of College Station’s Empirical Analysis
754 F.2d 1251 · 1985
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Haygood v. Younger (1985), Fred B. Shelton Iii, and John Paul Jones, Cross v. City of College Station, Cross-Appellants (1986)
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Parratt v. Taylor · Perry v. Sindermann
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[board member] Bailey's mere membership in a church that also opposed the grant of the variances does not by itself establish bias, nor raise an issue as to an 'irrevocably closed mind' that might justify his disqualification from the hearing....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] persistent widespread practice of city officials or employees, which, although not authorized by officially adopted and promulgated policy, is common and well settled as to constitute a custom that fairly represents municipal policy,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a genuine dispute of material fact is demonstrated as to whether the seemingly arbitrary denials of the parking variance were reasonably based on fact.”
1 later decision 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.