Williams v. Garraghty’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Yeagle v. Collegiate Times (1998), WJLA-TV. v. Levin (2002)
3 federal appellate · 51 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Midlantic National Bank v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection · Public Service Commission v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. · United States v. American College of Physicians · Allied Corp. v. District 17, United Mine Workers · Chaves v. Johnson
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]actual statements made to support or justify an opinion . . . can form the basis of an action for defamation.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.