Shea v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
966 F.2d 127 · 1992
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Kornegay v. Cottingham (1997), United States v. Coleman (1994)
23 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Foman v. Davis · Morrissey v. Brewer · Mitchell v. Forsyth
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Government officials performing discretionary functions generally are shielded from liability for civil damages if their conduct does not violate clearly established ... constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen an appellant gives notice that he is appealing from a final order, failing to refer specifically to earlier orders disposing of other claims or other parties does not preclude us from reviewing those orders.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a reasonable [agent] could have believed [the IRS agents' actions in conducting the search] to be lawful, in light of clearly established law and the information the searching [agents] possessed.”
2 later decisions 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.