Wilhelm v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Pierson v. Ray · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Bradley v. Fisher · A Quantity of Copies of Books v. Kansas
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is only when the Attorney General or his staff act clearly outside their jurisdiction that they lose their immunity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morrow v. Igleburger
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.