Williams v. Zbaraz’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Nken v. Holder (2009), Williams v. Zbaraz (1980)
15 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 Roe v. Wade · Maher v. Roe · Poelker v. Doe · Graves v. Barnes
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether or not these findings provide support for the District Court's judgment on the merits, a distinct question which I do not consider here, it is clear that they do provide support for plaintiffs' claims of irreparable injury if a stay is granted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Manning v. Hunt“The District Court's injunction ... was directed solely to the State of Illinois.”
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.