Shea v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis
953 F.2d 29 · 1992
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Korzen v. Local Union 705, International Brotherhood of Teamsters (1996), Gary R. Wall and William Cooksey, Sr. v. Construction & General Laborers' Union, Local 230, John Pezzente, Dominick Lopreato, and Charles Leconche (2000)
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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 Hines v. Anchor Motor Freight, Inc. · Smith v. Evening News Assn. · International Association Machinists v. Gonzales · Costello v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices v. Local of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ecause recovery in such suits would be equitable in nature only, there is little likelihood that permitting policing in this manner would result in a plethora of trivial suits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o the extent that these cases deal with equitable relief, we agree with them.”
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.