Williams v. Hartman’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
6 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Patterson v. Liberty Mutual Insurance (2000), Richardson v. Dailey (1997)
6 district · 67 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, and Melody Deshaney,s v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, et al. · Youngberg v. Romeo Ex Rel. Romeo · Kourouvacilis v. General Motors Corp. · Correllas v. Viveiros · White v. Peabody Construction Co., Inc.
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no . . . public employee . . . shall be liable for any injury or loss of property or personal injury or death caused by his negligent or wrongful act or omission while acting within the scope of his office or employment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A physician is not necessarily a public employee simply because a public entity pays his or her salary, provides a retirement fund, or manages a vacation schedule. In fact, we have noted that “the very nature of a physician’s function tends to suggest that in most instances [the physician] will act as an independent contractor,” not a public employee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The basic question is whether a person is subject to the direction and control of a public employer.”
1 later decision 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.