Shaffer v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
794 F.2d 1030 · 1986
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Frank Landry v. Air Line Pilots Association International Afl-Cio, Taca Airlines, S.A. And Charles J. Huttinger (1990), Gm Atkinson Ed v. Anadarko Bank and Trust Company (1987)
14 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on United States v. Turkette · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States · Commissioner v. Engle · Logarusic v. United States · Anthony v. United States
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conclusory allegations supported by a conclusory affidavit will not suffice to require a trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.