Williams v. Wohlgemuth’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 1992
10 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 601 (§ 401 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 7 U.S.C. § 2012
Relies on Stanley v. Illinois · Dandridge v. Williams · Shapiro v. Thompson · Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · King v. Smith
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under ‘traditional’ equal protection analysis, a legislative classification must be sustained if the classification itself is rationally related to legitimate governmental interest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chavez v. Shea““ ‘Traditional’ equal protection analysis does not require that every classification be drawn with precise ‘mathematical nicety.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chavez v. Shea
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.