Williams v. Kimbrough’s Empirical Analysis
415 F.2d 874 · 1969
Citation profile
33 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1985 · most notably Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond (1974), Lee v. Southern Home Sites Corp. (1970)
33 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Murphy v. Houma Well Service · Local Union No. 12 v. National Labor Relations Board · United States v. Jefferson County Board of Education · United States v. Jefferson County Board of Education · Bradley v. School Board of the City of Richmond
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no compelling circumstances to justify overturning the trial court's discretion in refusing to award attorneys' fees”
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.