Walters v. Edgar’s Empirical Analysis
163 F.3d 430 · 1998
Citation profile
31 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Baur v. Veneman (2003), Kohen v. Pacific Investment Management Co. (2009)
31 federal appellate ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Estelle v. Gamble · Haines v. Kerner · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] probabilistic harm, if nontrivial, can support standing”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This would indeed have been the proper course if something had happened to deprive the named plaintiffs of standing (or otherwise to render them inappropriate representatives of the class) after the suit had been filed, provided that two conditions were satisfied: that the suit had been certified as a class action, which would make the unnamed class members parties to the suit unless and until they opted out; and that at least one of these unnamed class members had standing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that had it not been for his being denied access to the courts, he would have won at least one court case”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Simkins v. Bruce
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.