Walker v. Jastremski’s Empirical Analysis
159 F.3d 117 · 1998
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2017
6 federal appellate · 8 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 Singleton v. Wulff · Houston v. Lack · Keating v. Carey · Bornholdt v. Brady · Lounsbury v. Jeffries
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the district court's decision was correct when considered in light of the arguments advanced at that stage of the litigation.”
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.