Shouse v. Ljunggren’s Empirical Analysis
792 F.2d 902 · 1986
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2014
6 federal appellate ·
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))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Morrissey v. Brewer · Hewitt v. Helms · Davis v. Scherer · Amaro v. Continental Can Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the law of the case doctrine does not apply to pretrial rulings such as motions for summary judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a district court judge may grant a motion for summary judgment that was previously denied by another district court judge.”
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.