Williams v. Mueller’s Empirical Analysis
13 F.3d 1214 · 1994
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Dawes v. Walker (2001), Krout v. Goemmer (2009)
14 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Carnegie v. United States · Scharffe v. Perkins · Ayala Serrano v. Lebron Gonzalez · Benny v. Pipes · Walker v. Norris
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.
“[a] prison official acts with deliberate indifference to an inmate's safety when the official is present at the time of an assault and fails to intervene or otherwise act to end the assault.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unarmed guards' failure to intervene does not constitute Eighth Amendment violation when there is evidence that intervention might result in serious injury or escalate the situation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A motion to dismiss an action at the end of the plaintiff's case in a non-jury trial ... is properly entitled a motion for judgment on partial findings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Roper
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.