Walker v. Benjamin’s Empirical Analysis
293 F.3d 1030 · 2002
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Concentra Health Services, Inc. (2007), Greeno v. Daley (2005)
38 federal appellate · 4 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 Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit · Henderson v. Brown · Daughtry 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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendant may not avoid trial on the grounds of qualified immunity”); Beers-Capitol, 256 F.3d at 142 n. 15 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cox v. Quinn“purpose of causing harm or ... knowledge that harm will result”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Boyce v. Moore
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.