Walker’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Richard Conner, Whitehead
5 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
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Washington v. Davis · Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. Feeney
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A district court abuses its discretion if it awards sanctions based on an erroneous view of the law or on a clearly erroneous assessment of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Richard Conner
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.