Williams v. Runyon’s Empirical Analysis
130 F.3d 568 · 1997
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 14 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Ray v. Kertes (2002), Michael Massey and John Otten, M.D. v. David Helman (2000)
30 federal appellate · 14 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 Messenger v. Anderson · Bowden v. United States · Collins v. State · Halsell v. Kimberly-Clark Corp. · Brown v. Marsh
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“failure to exhaust administrative remedies is an affirmative defense in the nature of statute[s] of limitations.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Consequently, the district court entered judgment as a matter of law in favor of the Postmaster. 12 Williams timely appealed. II. 13 The first issue we address on appeal is whether the Postmaster had waived his right to a renewed judgment as a matter of law on exhaustion grounds by not specifically raising that issue in the original motion for a judgment as a matter of law. Fed R. Civ. P. 50(a)(2) requires that a motion for a judgment as a matter of law”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[T]he law of the case doctrine does not limit the power of trial judges to reconsider their prior decisions,' but ... when a court does so, it must explain on the record why it is doing so and 'take appropriate steps so that the parties are not prejudiced by reliance on the prior ruling.'”
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.