Weicherding v. Riegel’s Empirical Analysis
160 F.3d 1139 · 1998
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably 116 F. Supp. 2d 995 - Grimes v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. (2000), State v. Henderson (2009)
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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Marks v. United States
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“racially charged environment,” avoiding racially motivated violence is essential to the efficient operation of the prison. Further, the court noted that if the prison were viewed as tolerating the racists views of the Klan, there would be an increased risk to all staff at the prison, especially the plaintiff. Moreover, racial tensions within the prison would be”
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.