Shane v. Shane’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Sullivan v. National Football League (1994), Sweeney v. Westvaco Co. (1991)
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 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 Commissioner v. Engle · Salem v. United States Lines Company · Breininger v. Sheet Metal Workers International Ass'n Local Union No. 6 · Grunenthal v. Long Island Rail Road · Freeman v. Package Machinery 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless the error is determined to have been prejudicial after review of the record as a whole”
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.