Elmore v. Shuler’s Empirical Analysis
787 F.2d 601 · 1986
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2006
9 federal appellate · 6 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 White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security · Prandini v. National Tea Co. · Young v. Powell · Moore v. National Ass'n of Securities Dealers, Inc.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“large authority the district court has to sanction filings that protract proceedings without bringing new matter to light.”
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.