Shaw v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 2025
1 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Bounds v. Smith · 171 W. Va. 245 - Cooper v. Gwinn · Tallulah Morgan v. John J. McDonough · 527 F. Supp. 1252 - Dawson v. Kendrick · 180 W. Va. 246 - Crain v. Bordenkircher
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Normally, however, separation of powers principles dictate that duly elected public officials be permitted to operate within their respective spheres without interference from another branch of government. And, certainly, principles embodying federalism further prohibit the federal judiciary’s interference in state or local government. But where the actions or omissions of elected public officials, whether representatives of federal, state, or local government, impermissibly infringe on the constitutionally protected rights of individuals, including prisoners, federal courts as interpreters and, most importantly, protectors of the United States Constitution must act to stop such infringement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dixon v. Barry
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.