Williams v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2019
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 401 (Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“readily leads to binding all members of the class to both favorable and unfavorable judgments.”
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.